What are the top colleges and universities in the US with a conservative political viewpoint.
I have heard Chicago, Notre Dame, and Texas A&M (don’t know if this is a top university). I have also heard Columbia is fairly conservative (not the students). Any truth to these schools being conservative? What are some other conservative schools?
Texas A&M is pretty staunchly conservative. Also considered one of the leading colleges in the nation, Aggie jokes aside.
What about Pepperdine? I remember they were offering Whitewater prosecutor Kenneth Starr some type of position (I really know nothing at all about the school other than that).
Boston University had a relatively conservative slant for this area when John Silber was in charge.
I didn’t go to school there, but I found most University of Chicago students not to be conservative at all…at least not socially conservative (perhaps economically conservative). It was the first time I experienced co-ed bathrooms, and I was woken up to the dormmate next door whipping himself in the morning to Madonna.
Perhaps I had an anamolous experience.
What do you mean, colleges with a conservative viewpoint? Who specifically do you want to be conservative? The majority of the faculty? The students? The buildings? All of the above?
I was thinking more the faculty and administration.
Pepperdine may be a conservative college, but I wouldn’t consider it one of the academic leaders of the country.
I’m sorry. . . Whipping himself? Is this a euphemism for masturbation or are you talking about self-flagellation?
As for the OP—I seem to remember hearing or reading something about Cornell that made me think it was pretty conservative, but I can’t recall the details. I guess that’s not very helpful, sorry.
I was a student at Cornell in the mid 90s, and I don’t think it was conservative at all. The town of Ithaca is populated with retired hippies - they even had a socialist mayor when I was there. The administration is more conservative than the student body, but I think you’d be hard pressed to find a school where that wasn’t true.
I went to Dartmouth and it was considered the most conservative of the Ivy League. I suppose it was but most of the faculty was still pretty liberal. Students ran the entire spectrum but there was no strong liberal bias as in many elite schools. The strongly conservative were also a powerful and loud minority.
I would think Brigham Young University would be right up there.
Also Pensacola Christian College.
Both, from what I understand, are excellent schools and hard to get into.
I would think most religious schools would be somewhat conservative. Also, smaller state schools in backwater areas are pretty conservo or non-political; my college (California University of PA) really had no political overtones, in either direction. It’s not a top school though.
I mean it quite literally, as in self-flagellation. The girls we were staying with said it was a normal occurance…
Well, there’s Harvard whenever a Democrat’s in the White House. They’re usually more liberal when the president’s a Republican. Basically, all the like-minded professors get picked as advisors, and all the former advisors come back to teach.
How about the rather ironically named Liberty University? Not a “top university” when it comes to academic standards, but they must be near the top of the list of most conservative schools. And I’m talking good ol’ red state, Southern Baptist, Jerry Falwell-loving, no drinking and no dirty movies conservative.
Bob Jones? 
I just graduated from Cornell, and I would generally agree that it is not conservative. Neither, really, is the administration.
However -
Cornell’s conservative students are very active and cohesive as a group, and the REALLY conservative students especially. The terrifying harpie Ann Coulter is a Cornell alum, and she either founded or revived the ‘Cornell Review’ which is a student newspaper with a really, really conservative slant.
The College Republicans are very big (600 students or so) but not terribly influential in school politics.
Compared to most Ivies, I imagine a conservative student would not feel ostracised.
Cheers,
Daphne
Speaking from a position of ignorance, is Notre Dame really that conservative? I know its a catholic school but it is run by Jesuits. Jesuits tend to be more liberal and encourage free thinking, at least historically. That still probable puts them to the right of most universities.
Like I said I am ignorant, I have never been there. The only thing I know is they don’t red-shirt their football players.
Hillsdale College in Michigan is probably the most conservative non-religious school in the country. They were one of the first schools to prohibit discrimination based on race, sex, and religion, and one of the first to give degrees to women.
Very conservsative faculty and curriculum. It is a liberal arts school.
Baylor seems to be pretty well regarded, and is certainly on the conservative side of the spectrum. Plus: live bears on campus!