Liberal-conservative spectrum of Midwestern LACs

College Search & Selection
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<p>How do the Midwestern LACs rank in terms of the liberal-conservative spectrum? (Like the top 100 LACs?)</p>

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<p>Oberlin is liberal</p>

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<p>^ Yes…but how liberal in comparison?</p>

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<p>I feel like it’s the most liberal. They have like communes and woman’s football</p>

<p>Grinnell is pretty liberal too</p>

<p>Wheaton college and Robert Morris U are very conservative</p>

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<p>^yeah…Wheaton is on one end and Oberlin is on the other?</p>

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<p>indeed</p>

<p>do we count Pennsylvanian as the midwest? I do sometimes because of the big 10. there are a lot of liberal arts schools that lean slightly right there</p>

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<p>Marquette might be on the right because it’s catholic.</p>

<p>Uchicago(if it counts as LAC) is known to be libertarian</p>

<p>Lawrence seems kind of in the middle to me</p>

<p>Kenyon is liberal but not as liberal as oberlin</p>

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<p>Could you give us some names… We can’t rank them all but can probably provide groupings for a couple dozen. :)</p>

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<p>Carleton is probably pretty liberal as is macalester. probably around the same range as kenyon.</p>

<p>Denison is probably on the right. Centre might be too but it’s in kentucky if that counts</p>

<p>Depauw and St. Olaf are probably in the middle</p>

<p>idk about wabash</p>

<p>Beloit i think is in the middle, leaning left but it might be more liberal then that</p>

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<p>I’m going to college ******* this</p>

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<p>Sure. The names that come to mind are:</p>

<p>Kenyon
Oberlin
Wooster
Earlham
Illinois Wesleyan
Wheaton
St. Olaf
Kalamazoo
Cornell
Hillsdale
Hope
Lake Forest
Knox
Beloit
Grinnell
Macalester
Denison
Carleton</p>

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<p>According to Princeton Review, Beloit(13) is more liberal than Oberlin(19), but who knows? Macalester (8) is the most liberal college in the Midwest but the vast majority of liberal colleges are on the coasts.</p>

<p>Again, according to Princeton Review, Grove City College, Hillsdale College and College of the Ozarks are very conservative. Wheaton (IL) and Kansas State also show up on the top 20 list. Overall, religious colleges and military academies are labeled conservative.</p>

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<p>liberal rankings

  1. Oberlin
  2. Grinnell
  3. Macalester
  4. College of Wooster
  5. Carleton
  6. Lawrence
  7. Kenyon
  8. Beloit
  9. Kalamazoo
  10. Earlham
  11. Webster U (missouri)
  12. Gustavus Adolphus
  13. College for creative studies???
  14. Roosevelt U
  15. Augsburg
  16. Cornell College
  17. Linfield
  18. knox
  19. hamline U
  20. Alverno
  21. St. Olaf
  22. Hiram
  23. St. Cathrine U
  24. U of minnesota- Morris
  25. Otterbain U
  26. Berea (kentucky)
  27. Truman St (missouri)
  28. Stephens (missouri)
  29. Elmhurst
  30. Coe</p>
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<p>where is that list from?</p>

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<p>So what states are considered midwest? Around the great lakes or did you have something else in mind?</p>

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<p>I’m not totally sure if they all count as liberal arts though</p>

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<p>I started doing the most conservative but that one was hard to figure out if they were liberal arts or not. I mostly did it by size</p>

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<p>Yeah that site is my friend, and probably around the Great Lakes.</p>

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<p>Lol me too but I’m not totally sure if it’s accurate or not. Also I always feel like I rely too much on their grades and rankings than I should but it does have just about everything I want to know about a college</p>

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<p>Yes. Food is of the utmost importance. :)</p>