Three out of every four eligible voters within La Salle University’s student population headed to the polls for the 2020 U.S. presidential election—a figure that exceeded the voting rate among their campus peers across the country. 

This also marks a 17.4-percent increase in La Salle students’ presidential election participation in 2016, when 58.6 percent of eligible La Salle students voted. Nationally, the college voting rate among eligible students was 66 percent.

These data are from a report by the National Study of Learning, Voting, and Engagement, from Tufts University’s Institute for Democracy and Higher Education (IDHE). The report analyzed voting data from nearly 1,200 colleges and universities throughout the United States.

—Christopher A. Vito