At a time when American institutions across the board are taking hits to their trustworthiness, colleges outranked the government, corporations and media organizations on the trust scale — even by groups who broadly reported low levels of trust , the report found. Morning Consult defined trust as the belief in an institution to do the right thing.
The approval for colleges stems from people’s recognition of education’s impact on society, according to Rahul Choudaha, managing director of higher education at Morning Consult.
