The latest Vanderbilt Project on Unity and American Democracy national poll shows Americans have growing confidence in U.S. institutions of higher education despite frequent coverage of the escalating negative charges and accusations against them. 

The probability-based poll — focused on various U.S. institutions — was fielded from Sept. 5 to Sept. 8, reaching 1,030 American adults in English and Spanish. The poll has a margin of error of plus/minus 3.4 percentage points.