<p>Liberal: UC Berkeley, Carleton College
Conservative: Hillsdale?</p>
<p>Most conservative…Pensacola Christian College, Liberty U and Bob Jones. Yikes.</p>
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<p>In the absence of other information, location and affiliation (esp religious) should give you a pretty good idea about what to expect. The Northeast and California tend to be very liberal, while the Midwest is rumored to be more conservative.</p>
<p>Location isn’t that reliable, as colleges and universities are environments of their own. In the South and Midwest they might be ultra-leftist enclaves, and in the Northeast or Left coast they might be libertarian enclaves.</p>
<p>For most liberal, I’d say UC Berkeley, Reed, Antioch, The New School, Bard, MIT, Duke, University of Pennsylvania.</p>
<p>But depending on the degree you get and the classes you take, you may never notice.</p>
<p>Outside of small specialist parochial colleges I don’t know of any conservative colleges in this country, but certain schools’ economics departments are known for their libertarianesque viewpoint: Harvard, George Mason, and once upon a time, U Chicago and UCLA (I’ve heard this isn’t true anymore). That said, virtually every economist, no matter how liberal, is well to the right of most humanities professors. Even an anti-free marketeer hack like Stiglitz is considered a capitalist pig by the typical Gender Theory professor.</p>
<p>I would say as a general rule most state schools are more liberal and smaller religious schools are more conservative. I go to a pretty balanced state school. You have a little bit of everything.</p>
<p>I heard that Duke wasn’t a very liberal place…but I might be wrong. Obviously the most liberal schools are: NYU, UCB, Harvard, Yale…</p>
<p>Liberal: Grinnell or however you spell it lol
Conservative: Brigham Young</p>
<p>I agree, Brigham Young would definitely be in the running for most conservative.</p>
<p>Penn definitely isn’t as liberal as one would assume. Good luck finding a liberal Whartonite.</p>
<p>The famous “water buffalo” incident took place at UP, which is why I included it. Anecdotes I’ve heard over the years about Duke are why I included that school.</p>
<p>UT is pretty liberal, Texas A&M conservative</p>
<p>Liberal - Wesleyan, Vassar, Grinell, Carleton, Reed </p>
<p>Conservative - Washington and Lee, BYU, Bucknell, Colgate, Colby</p>
<p>Keep in mind, TomServo, that the “water buffalo incident” happened almost 20 years ago, at the height of PC-mania – 20 years ago Bob Jones University still banned interracial dating, but I’m not calling them racist now, 20 years later. Places change. </p>
<p>Besides, you’re conflating “most PC” with “most liberal.” They’re correlated, but hardly the same thing. In fact, some of the most liberal schools in the nation – Yale, Stanford, Oberlin – are not oh-so-PC these days. </p>
<p>I also wouldn’t classify Duke as liberal. From what I hear from those I know who’ve taught there, the students are far more conservative than their peers at other top schools – by which I mean, they’re pretty evenly split between left and right. </p>
<p>Also, an even split between liberal/conservative is kind of tough, so I’m going to make a few more distinctions.</p>
<p>Most “crunchy hippie” liberal: Reed, Oberlin
Most “activist” liberal: Berkeley, Smith
Most “intellectual, limousine” liberal: Yale, Harvard, Columbia</p>
<p>Most religiously conservative: Any evangelical college, Yeshiva U, Catholic U, BYU
Conservative, but not religious: the military academies, Ole Miss, Georgia, Miami Ohio
Right-Libertarian: You can find them anywhere, but lots at MIT and Chicago, and any place with a good b-school</p>
<p>Suprised Notre Dame hasn’t come up as conservative, single sex dorms, plus wasn’t there a huge outcry when they got Obama to speak there?</p>
<p>Thanks all</p>
<p>@TomServo- Please share some of the anecdotes about Duke!</p>
<p>Based on my own perspective, here are my assumptions:</p>
<p>Most “liberal” colleges: UC Berkeley, UC Santa Cruz, Humboldt State, SDSU, SFSU, Smith College, University of Colorado at Boulder, Fordham, NYU, Reed College, SVA (School of Visual Arts), Academy of Art University (San Francisco), Chapman University, Columbia College Chicago, St. John’s College.</p>
<p>Most “conservative” colleges: Any bible “college,” e.g. Bob Jones or Pensacola, Cal Lutheran, California Baptist University, Azusa Pacific University, Seattle Pacific University, BYU, Pepperdine University, Boston College (don’t know exactly why, but I get a very conservative vibe from it).</p>
<p>^ In my experience BC is conservative for Massachusetts, but still fairly moderate as the country goes.</p>
<p>Conservative: USAFA, West Point, Naval Academy, Coast Guard Academy, Quite a few colleges in Texas</p>
<p>I’m a student at BC, and despite the school’s emphasis on Catholic/Jesuit principles, the student body itself is a mix of liberal types, conservative types, and everything in between. It’s anecdotal, but I don’t seem to notice any particular political view being a majority.</p>
<p>mochamaven, would you happen to know more schools that have healthy libertarian populations? What makes you say Chicago and MIT do? Also, do you know of any schools that have leftist libertarian leanings, as opposed to the right?</p>