<p>What are the most moral, least party colleges in the top tiers?</p>
<p>Deep Springs? Brigham Young? Pepperdine?</p>
<p>u chicago, they don’t even have ed to up their yield rates because they believe its coercive</p>
<p>BYU is not top-tier, but it would probably have to be them.</p>
<p>Baylor is a little more “academically elite” than BYU, and Baylor probably wins “most nauseating college” hands-down. You might try that.</p>
<p>It really depends on whether you mean moral as in ‘not crazy liberal’ or moral as in ‘respects human rights’ or moral as in Conservative Values ™.</p>
<p>For the first one, many religious colleges fit the bill. For the Second one, I have no idea. For the third one, Look for BYU or Bob Jones, those are the only ones that pop to mind. not necessarily top tier, but something might just have to give.</p>
<p>Also, I’ve heard that of the Ivies, Yale is fairly conservative.</p>
<p>out of colleges like U Chicago, Penn, Cornell, Northwestern, WashU(STL), Michigan, which college do you think has the most conservative values in its student body?</p>
<p>Btw, Yale (and Columbia) are NOT conservative by any shape or form. BYU is not such a great option as I’m not Mormon…</p>
<p>since when does conservative = moral???</p>
<p>I hope you are not talking about politics or religion here…</p>
<p>He’s not. And you’re right, conservative does not = moral. But usually colleges that stay true to some religious mumbo jumbo and attract more religiously principled students are obviously going to be more “moral.”</p>
<p>I’m Catholic and I’ll be the first to admit I’m not very “moralistic” beyond your basics…don’t cheat, don’t kill people, don’t steal, and be friendly. Beyond that anything goes to me. I won’t go into “victimless crimes” I commit, but I’m just gonna throw that out there as an example of an opposite example of what the OP probably means, and I’m not a “bad person” by any means…</p>
<p>go to notre dame</p>
<p>Davidson and Haverford are well-known for their honor codes.</p>
<p>I feel respect for the law and consideration towards all are pretty decent standards for judging morality.</p>
<p>Most of the most likely suspects have already been named.</p>
<p>Everyone has different morals so such a thing doesn’t exist.</p>
<p>I’m also really confused about how we’re defining “moral,” but I would certainly put a lot of the Society of Friends (Quaker) schools up there.</p>
<p>Haverford, hands down. It challenges its student to live their lives, day by day and moment by moment, according to a pledge of personal integrity they take as freshmen, and administered not by rules, not by college bureaucrats, but by their own consciences and by the judgments of their peers. It’s pretty intense. It distills the essence of morality. Some love it. Some hate it. But it’s a pretty good litmus test of where you stand on questions of personal integrity and morality, as defined not by some religious sect but by your own conscience and by a public morality that seeks to be universal.</p>
<p>How can a college be said to be moral?</p>
<p>I suppose one could talk about its success in fostering moral behavior in its students.
If that is the criterion, then what do we mean by moral behavior, and how would we measure it to determine which college is the most moral? Some schools do seem to have a better track record than others in sending students on to service in the Peace Corps or Teach for America. Would that a better metric than the number of graduates who become medical doctors?</p>
<p>The question perhaps reflects confusion about the aims of higher education. Those aims, in my opinion, are not primarily moral but intellectual. The aim of the university is to produce and disseminate knowledge. What schools adhere in a principled way to that aim, and are successful at it? </p>
<p>One could talk specifically about which schools do the best job of examining the nature of morality. One good candidate might be St. John’s College, the “Great Books” school. It exposes all of its students to what, in the judgment of some thoughtful people, is the best that has been thought and said about morality (and many other important ideas.)</p>
<p>Haverford is a good college but I meant moral (conservative) in the sense that I don’t want a school where people are partying and having sex 24/7… I’m not Catholic so I’m not going to go to Notre Dame</p>
<p>Then this is just another ‘what are the non-party schools’ thread by someone with a viewpoint on morality.</p>
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<p>By that standard, the most moral institution would be a well-run state penitentiary.</p>
<p>Seriously, at virtually any of the most selective, prestigious universities, your definition of “moral” will tend to be rejected. On the other hand, at most of those schools, people will be too busy studying to be partying and having sex 24/7.</p>
<p>As you move down the selectivity and competitiveness scale, chances are, students will tend to have more idle time to do these things. I have read that the biggest “drinking” schools tend to be (a) rural (b) southern (c) unattractive to Asian students. So if you want a relatively selective school with less partying (I don’t know about the sex), perhaps aim for a northern/western urban school with many Asian students. Maybe Carnegie Mellon?</p>
<p>Or you can pick a “religious” school like Liberty University, Bob Jones, or Patrick Henry. Less politically right wing (but still socially conservative) would be Goshen College (a rather respected Mennonite college).</p>
<p>A couple of the guides (I do not recall which ones) do attempt to identify where schools sit on the liberal/conservative spectrum. But keep in mind that “top” schools, even ones that attract many relatively conservative students, tend to put a premium on personal freedom. </p>
<p>At many schools, though, you can ask to live in a “substance-free” dorm.</p>
<p>Any of the service academies (they qualify as moral and federally run penitentiaries). 
I say that being a grad of one.</p>