Politics and College Choice

[allyphoe]

And U of Tulsa is preferred by many conservative families in Colorado, its a private Christian school with a strong Roman Catholic student group.

University of Tulsa (local to me) is nominally associated with the Presbyterian Church but has no overt religious presence. My kid, who eliminated both St Olaf and Southern Methodist University as too religiously affiliated, considers TU to be acceptably secular.

I do think of it as being on the conservative end of the college campus spectrum, but more due to political apathy and an engineering-and-business preprofessionalism than for religious or ideological reasons.

[ucbalumnus]

@allyphoe

I do think of it as being on the conservative end of the college campus spectrum, but more due to political apathy and an engineering-and-business preprofessionalism than for religious or ideological reasons.

Being apolitical is different from being conservative or liberal.

Probably the great majority of colleges (mostly less selective commuter based universities or community colleges where students are mostly studying preprofessional subjects) are more apolitical than the small number of highly selective residential colleges where students are mostly studying liberal arts.