<p>Does anyone know of any good conservative colleges/universities, preferably catholic?</p>
<p>Notre Dame
Georgetown
Boston College
College of the Holy Cross
Villanova
BYU (mormon)
Texas A&M (public)
Creighton
Santa Clara (Not sure how conservative they are)
Wake Forest
SMU (Methodist)</p>
<p>Ave Maria is nice if you’re thinking about Florida.</p>
<p>Rhodes College in Memphis, they’re affiliated with Methodists.</p>
<p>Rosemont College (near Philadelphia; allows classes to be taken at Villanova)
Desalles University (near Allentown, PA)</p>
<p>Pepperdine for sure. Even Kenneth Starr ended up there.</p>
<p>The schools below tend to be more conservative when compared to their peers. Some of the schools lean left, but they aren’t radical and a conservative could find their niche:</p>
<p>Princeton, Dartmouth, MIT, Duke, UPenn, Vanderbilt, Notre Dame, Boston College, Rice, Georgetown, Virginia, Colgate, Middlebury, Lehigh, Washington and Lee, Purdue, Richmond, Wake Forest, Claremont McKenna, Pepperdine, Fairfield, Miami (OH), Villanova, Bucknell, Loyola MD, USC, James Madison, Trinity, UT-Austin.</p>
<p>[List</a> of Roman Catholic universities and colleges in the United States - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Roman_Catholic_universities_and_colleges_in_the_United_States]List”>List of Catholic universities and colleges in the United States - Wikipedia)</p>
<p>Rhodes and Wake Forest are solidly moderate. Princeton, Dartmouth, Duke, MIT, Rice, etc. lean very left and are “conservative” only in comparison to Hampshire or Sarah Lawrence. That said, I agree that being outnumbered doesn’t mean being unwelcome, and most of these colleges are fairly open-minded.</p>
<p>Only a few top colleges have reasonably large conservative populations. I like the suggestion of Washington & Lee. Sewanee would be another good bet, I think.</p>
<p>Seattle U, St. Louis U, LMU, and Loyola-Chicago seem to be some of the most popular Catholic colleges on CC aside from the usual suspects.</p>
<p>In Minnesota, St. Thomas (in St. Paul) and St John’s and St. Benedicts (men’s & women’s schools right near each other). Gustavus in St. Peter is Lutheran.</p>
<p>Duke, Dartmouth, Holy Cross, Davidson, Colgate, ND.</p>
<p>Beware of assuming that a Catholic university is necessarily conservative. Many, including and in particular Georgetown, are not terribly conservative and probably fall more on the liberal side of the spectrum when compared to a Franciscan, Ave Maria, or Notre Dame, for that matter.</p>
<p>You might have to define what you mean by conservative…being a religious conservative even means different things to different people…do you mean politically, socially? </p>
<p>In general for smaller schools I would definitely consider Washington and Lee and Furman.</p>
<p>Maybe i’m wrong but i don’t think of Middlebury as being very conservative.</p>
<p>Thanks for all of the responses! I was thinking more politically conservative. They don’t have to be Catholic, but it would be an added bonus.</p>
<p>Loyola School of Chicago is very conservative. Also Brigham Young University.</p>
<p>Another one that comes to mind is Hillsdale in Michigan.</p>
<p>You should look into the Jesuit Colleges as well. I put the list below and you can look at the ones that make sense geographically and academically.
[Member</a> Institutions](<a href=“http://www.ajcunet.edu/Member-Institutions]Member”>http://www.ajcunet.edu/Member-Institutions)</p>
<p>Oberlin, Sarah Lawrence, Reed, Berkeley …</p>
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<p>Definitely Hillsdale. They accept no Federal money.</p>