Which colleges have the most Turning Point USA chapters?
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Executive summary
Turning Point USA (TPUSA) operates chapters at hundreds of distinct college campuses nationwide, and the organization itself reports roughly 800–900 college chapters while media outlets and TPUSA-aligned sources note surges of new chapter inquiries in 2025; however, the publicly available reporting does not provide a ranked list of which individual colleges "have the most" TPUSA chapters because chapters are organized at the campus level (one chapter per college) and sources report totals or state-by-state counts rather than per‑institution tallies [1] [2] [3] [4].
1. Why the question is tricky: one chapter per campus, not many per school
The phrasing “which colleges have the most Turning Point USA chapters?” implies a convention—schools accumulating multiple TPUSA chapters—that does not reflect how TPUSA structures its presence: chapters are student-led organizations chartered on individual campuses, and the sources describe totals of campus chapters (hundreds) rather than multiple chapters housed at a single college, so there is no reliable source enumerating multiple TPUSA chapters at one institution [1] [2] [3].
2. National footprint: hundreds of college chapters but counts vary by source
TPUSA’s own student-facing pages state “nearly 800+” or “800+ college chapters” nationwide, while regional reporting and TPUSA-affiliated outlets in 2025 cite figures around 900 college chapters and a large spike in inquiries after Charlie Kirk’s killing that TPUSA says produced tens of thousands of new inquiries to charter chapters [1] [2] [3] [4]. Independent reporting documents growth in college and high-school outreach and notes TPUSA’s claims of expanding into K–12 as well, but these accounts do not translate to a ranked list of campuses with multiple chapters [5] [6].
3. State and regional concentrations — what reporting can say
Where reporting offers more resolution is at the state or system level: for example, Indiana reporting traced at least 23 TPUSA chapters across Hoosier colleges, indicating a dense state presence, and local outlets list individual colleges that have recently proposed or launched chapters—Stony Brook University, Farmingdale State, University of Scranton, Misericordia University, University of Texas at Dallas and others—showing broad geographic spread rather than concentration at single institutions [7] [8] [3] [9].
4. Inquiries and rapid expansion claims: interpret with caution
TPUSA and allied outlets reported massive spikes of interest—tens of thousands of inquiries to start chapters and thousands of new high‑school "Club America" signups—which the organization frames as momentum toward having chapters on most campuses and high schools, but inquiries are not the same as active, chartered chapters and media coverage highlights both the organization’s own tallies and skepticism from educators and civil‑rights groups about the content and aims of those expansions [4] [10] [5].
5. Alternate perspectives, agendas and limits of the record
Proponents portray TPUSA’s network as the largest conservative student movement—an asset for “free speech” and political organizing—and refer to the 800–900 chapter figure or larger counts when including high-school clubs; critics and some news outlets highlight watchlists, controversial rhetoric attributed to the founder, and efforts by state officials to push chapters into schools as evidence of ideological project and political influence, which can skew reporting on numerical claims [2] [6] [10]. Importantly, none of the provided sources publish a definitive list that ranks colleges by TPUSA chapter count because the organizational model is one chapter per campus and public reporting focuses on aggregate totals, inquiries, or state counts rather than per‑institution multiple chapters [1] [2] [4] [7].
6. Bottom line
Available sources consistently report that TPUSA has several hundred college chapters (commonly cited as 800–900+), with spikes of new inquiries in 2025 and concentrated state presences (for example, at least 23 chapters in Indiana), but they do not support the idea that particular colleges “have the most” TPUSA chapters; instead, the relevant comparators are which campuses host a TPUSA chapter at all and which states or regions have the greatest number of campus chapters [1] [2] [4] [7].