During the same time period, former presidential candidate John Kasich was the only Republican presidential candidate to visit MSU.

Milo Yiannopoulos, a conservative speaker and journalist, will make a stop on campus in December.

"College students sway Democrat and are more liberal than the rest of the population," Director of the Institute for Public Policy and Social Research Matt Grossmann said. "It makes more sense for Democrats to come to campus than for Republicans."

First-time voters are influenced by who visits campus, MSU College Democrats President Daniel Eggerding said.

This appears to be somewhat of a bipartisan belief at MSU.

"I think that the lack of conservative speakers (on campus) plays a role on who first-time voters will vote (for) this November," MSU College Republicans Vice Chair Justin Gould said.

Conservatives have always been skeptical about visiting college campuses because there are usually left-leaning protesters, Grossmann said.

This perceived bias has some conservative students upset.

"If MSU prides itself for being a safe space for students to learn new things, we need to be representing the right as well as we do the left," Gould said.

The student groups are the ones who bring speakers to campus, so it's unfair to blame the university, Eggerding said.