Second Texas A&M and Liberty in VA (Jerry Falwell’s University). Patrick Henry in VA also has a conservative reputation. Baylor used to be and as far as I know is still (Southern Baptist), Abilene Christian (Church of Christ) Keep in mind, that while there will be a slant to liberal or conservative at any large state school you should have ample opportunities to find your niche. It might be more difficult at a school with conservative religous backing (not all religous schools are conservative) since the whole foundation of a university is backed by a belief system. Of course the other consideration is faculty and how “open” they are to different views. Both of my sons have run into trouble in high school by espousing different views than their teachers!
UVa’s always seemed pretty conservative to me.
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Seems like some schools are missing from their list, including MIT and Caltech. Differences in divisional requirements are also not captured in these listings. There are also odd limitations in some of the criteria that produce inconsistent results.
Also, even those who advocate a core curriculum (whether conservative or not) may not necessarily agree with the specific items that they list. Nor does a core curriculum indicate a conservative aligned school.
Conservative: Ave Maria University, Christendom College, Hillsdale College, Franciscan University of Steubenville, Thomas Aquinas (CA)
What’s odd to me is Super Match doesn’t have a “conservative-friendly” category, when liberal schools are so much easier to find. It seems to me that it would be a lot more meaningful to get rid of the “liberal-leaning” category, keeping the LGBT category, and adding a “conservative-leaning” option. You’d cover a lot more environments that way.
I’ve read a lot of posts asking for conservative-friendly colleges and gay-friendly colleges, but I have rarely seen anyone asking for a liberal-friendly campus, since, presumably, they are so easy to find.
Hate to disagree with prior post on first page of thread-our two just graduated from Furman, and despite it’s southern location and old history with the Southern Baptist Convention, the faculty is very liberal, and in 2008 in a student-only vote, Obama trounced McCain. I would list SMU ( where the new W library is being built), Rollins ( the Pepperdine of the East), probably Suwanee ( could be wrong though), UGA, UAB. Wofford in Spartanburg, SC.
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:
Princeton, Dartmouth, Duke, Georgetown, MIT, Notre Dame, UPenn, Vanderbilt, Boston College, Villanova, University of Virginia, USC, Colgate, Trinity (CT), Washington and Lee, Wake Forest, SMU, Richmond, Bucknell, Pepperdine, Purdue, Lehigh, UT-Austin, and the Service Academies (Army/Navy).
When my D was looking for schools, she used the “liberal-leaning” search option, then removed those schools from her list.
Whitworth
Gonzaga
Pacific Lutheran
Chapman
Biola
Azusa
I would steer clear of extremely evangelical/right-wing institutions like Liberty…not many people take it seriously. A lot of the other suggestions are good, though.
I would say Claremont McKenna College. Though I believe its student body is technically 50/50, it’s considerably more conservative than the neighboring members of the Claremont college consortium.They house a right leaning student publication for the 5-Cs and regularly host conservative speakers like Karl Rove. The campus feel has a significant Republican, and sometimes Libertarian, vibe.
I would also add Sewanee, Univ of the South.
However reading this thread I was a bit confused - a lot of posters equate conservative, which I took to be politically/academically conservative from the OP, to the deeply religious/dry colleges. To my mind those (deeply rel) are not “conservative” academically since they espouse their own mantra. Am I misreading this, or are people just lumping things together? Tx
^ People are always lumping together economic conservatives with social conservatives even though it ends up just confusing the issue. Social conservatives and economic conservatives have not always been allies (note the William Jennings Bryan presidential campaigns that celebrated economic populism and conservative Christian values), and there are no compelling reasons that they must be allies. There really should be a third category for schools where students have more libertarian attitudes/values, i.e., where students are more liberal on the social issues and conservative on the economic issues. There could even be a fourth category of schools where most students are liberal on the economic issues and conservative on the social issues. Such schools would be rare because that is not a popular combination currently in the US, though it is popular in much of the world.
High Point University
Biola
Pepperdine
Azusa
Point Loma Nazarene
Harvard and Stanford? There is hope.
Hillsdale in Michigan
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Like other posters have said, Hillsdale College. They have a monthly conservative publication.
did anyone say Bob Jones University?