The Top 30 LGBTQ-Friendly Colleges 2023
Because everyone deserves to feel seen on campus. 🏳️🌈
LGBTQ advocacy group Campus Pride just released its annual ranking of the most LGBTQ-friendly college campuses for 2023. A whopping 30 different colleges all around the country made the list!
How are the colleges chosen?
Campus Pride uses a specific set of benchmarks to justify its rankings. These include things like LGBTQ student opportunities, commitment to LGBTQ issues, on-campus organizations, and more. Check out the rankings for over 240 universities here.
Additionally, Campus Pride also has a “worst list“, so if you’re an LGBTQ student just beginning your college search, you’re going to want to check that list out, too.
Mid-Atlantic
- Adelphi University
- Ithaca College
- Rutgers University
- Pennsylvania State University
- University of Maryland, College Park
- University of Pennsylvania
- University of Rochester
Midwest
- Augsburg University
- Indiana University, Bloomington
- Kansas State University
- Northern Illinois University
- Oakland University
- Purdue University
- The Ohio State University
- University of Illinois Chicago
- University of Wisconsin — Eau Claire
- University of Wisconsin — Green Bay
- University of Wisconsin — Milwaukee
- Washington University in St. Louis
New England
- Tufts University
- University of Massachusetts, Amherst
- University of Vermont
South
- Elon University
- George Mason University
- Guilford College
- Northern Kentucky University
- University of Louisville
West
- San Diego State University
- Southern Oregon University
- University of Colorado at Boulder
Looking for even more college rankings? Check out the schools that increased their rank the most this year.
