<p>thanks guys</p>
<p>I've always heard that Berkeley's pretty liberal, and I know a lot of southern schools can be pretty conservative like Samford. Princeton review has some good lists you can check out too-
The</a> New 2008 "Best 366 Colleges" Rankings on The Princeton Review</p>
<p>thank you</p>
<p>Also a book called "Choosing the Right College". It rates schools as leaning right and left as its main theme, hence the title.</p>
<p>Unless there is evidence to the contrary assume all schools are liberal.</p>
<p>"Choosing the Right College" provides much more depth than breadth. There is a 6-8 page write up on about 150 schools. Many libraries have it.</p>
<p>"All-American Colleges", a sister publication to "Choosing the Right College", focuses on schools offering a classical liberal arts education with a set of core courses. These admittedly tend to be conservative and many have a strong religious component. </p>
<p>thank you</p>
<p>liberal: wesleyan
bard
swathmore
middlebury...basically a lot of the liberal arts colleges</p>
<p>conservative: georgetown</p>
<p>is Gtown really that conservative?</p>
<p>No, Georgetown certainly isn't all that conservative, closer to moderate with a liberal bent. Personally, I feel like it has the perfect balance of liberals and conservatives, which I feel a college needs in so much as students should not just be completely surrounded by liberalism for four years. As a Catholic University it does attract a fair amount of semi-conservative Catholic students, but it is by no means as conservative as say ND is (Jesuits are easily the most progressive of the Catholic orders). GU Pride and H*yas for Choice are both very vocal and visable on campus, and as is the case with almost all major universities the GU Dems are a lot larger (and more active IMO) than the GU Republicans.</p>
<p>Grove City, Purdue are conservative</p>
<p>I don't find Berkeley to be all that liberal as a university. Now, as for all the outsiders from the surrounding areas who come onto campus to hold their protests, that's another story...</p>
<p>Another poster did a Facebook scan in 7/2007 and found the following self-identified numbers for the USNWR Top 20 national universities. The numbers don't add up to 100% because many students did not want to disclose their political affiliation.</p>
<p>Liberal or Very Liberal , College</p>
<p>30% , Brown
28% , Wash U StL
27% , Northwestern
26% , Yale
25% , Emory
24% , Stanford
24% , U Chicago
24% , Columbia
23% , Rice
22% , Harvard
22% , Cal Tech
22% , Dartmouth
22% , Cornell
21% , Princeton
21% , U Penn
21% , Duke
20% , J Hopkins
19% , MIT
17% , Vanderbilt
15% , Notre Dame</p>
<p>Moderate , College</p>
<p>22% , Rice
21% , Vanderbilt
20% , Cal Tech
20% , Notre Dame
19% , U Chicago
19% , Wash U StL
19% , Emory
18% , MIT
18% , Duke
17% , Cornell
17% , Northwestern
17% , J Hopkins
16% , Princeton
16% , Dartmouth
16% , Brown
15% , Yale
15% , U Penn
14% , Harvard
14% , Stanford
14% , Columbia</p>
<p>Conservative or Very Conservative , College</p>
<p>15% , Notre Dame
14% , Vanderbilt
8% , Rice
7% , Duke
6% , Princeton
6% , Dartmouth
6% , Cornell
6% , J Hopkins
5% , U Penn
5% , Wash U StL
5% , Emory
4% , Yale
4% , Cal Tech
4% , U Chicago
4% , Northwestern
3% , Harvard
3% , Stanford
3% , MIT
3% , Columbia
2% , Brown</p>
<p>how does this list work? Most of the schools' are on all 3 lists</p>
<p>=] It's a list of the top percentages. It's kinda sad that there are little to no college-age conservatives, relatively, anyway.</p>
<p>The list doesn't work. It says more about which schools have students who strongly identify with their political affiliation. There are lots of people like me who don't identify strongly with their political affiliation, and even if we did, it wouldn't be easily described by the traditional one dimensional scale.</p>
<p>most conservative would probably be something like pensacola, bob jones, liberty, etc</p>
<p>thank you</p>
<p>I think that in the cases of a lot of Universities listed here, Conservatism is being replaced with school's representative of the Religious Right (e.g. Bob Jones, Liberty, etc.) For schools that have a more conservative-minded student body without religious affiliation, I would look into Washington and Lee, Wake Forest, and for the most part schools that look and feel like a southern country club. When I think of liberal schools, I immediately think Wesleyan and Brown but there are a ton of schools with a predominantly left-leaning student body. Curiously, schools with a politics focus (CMC, Georgetown) are very politically balanced with regards to the political spectrum.</p>
<p>thank you</p>
<p>no- liberal= brown, reed</p>
<p>conservative= bob jones</p>