<p>I did much research a couple yrs ago, when this school approached us about my son and athletics. As someone said earlier, it is very arty, very left wing. It makes me think of vegetarian tree huggers, to use a popular phrase of today. As best I remember they had no business degree available. Want to add diversity to their campus? Send them a republican!
Politics and diversity aside, I've heard they give an excellent education in one's major. I would be concerned about getting a well-rounded education.</p>
<p>That's funny, younghoss!</p>
<p>My brother-in-law challenged my daughter when she went off to Oberlin about the diversity by asking, "Where are all the Republicans?" She hastened to email him (3 yrs ago) that the Oberlin Republican club was recently resurrected.</p>
<p>You're right, no business degree available, but people major in Econ, PoliSci or whatever and head off to MBA programs or PhD's after Oberlin. </p>
<p>My memory from my own education there, and confirmed by my daughter's current experience, is that the most serious of the right-wing students are affirmed in class, where the professors defend their right to position themselves differently than the left-wing, too easily spouted viewpoints.
However, they get eaten up by peers at lunchroom conversation, so are a somewhat stifled minority. </p>
<p>That was why I pointed out Jan Ting and Richard Haas, more conservative graduates who journeyed to the top echelons of government and academia, with views far to the right of peers. THen I remembered how quiet they were in social settings. But I bet they had superior grades in their majors. We never asked each other about grades at Oberlin. Tacky.</p>
<p>I would point out that very few top LACs or private universities offer business degrees at the undergraduate level. Penn/Wharton does, and Cornell has semi-business degrees in the schools of Hotel Management, ILR, and Agriculture. But that's about it. Oberlin is no different from any of its peers in this regard (or in general leftiness, either). It is somewhat arty, but probably only about halfway along the scale between Williams and Bard.</p>