# Top Conservative Colleges

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-conservative-colleges/273749>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [November 8, 2004, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-conservative-colleges/273749 "2004-11-08T23:51:58Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\
**Post date:** [November 12, 2004, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-conservative-colleges/273749/41 "2004-11-12T14:05:07Z")

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> Georgetown

I was under the impression that Georgetown is actually very liberal. It’s a huge party school, in an urban area, founded by Jesuits (pretty liberal), and all but abandoned their Catholic focus (they have a nearly all-secular board).

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**Author:** ![Kel\_Varnsen\_Latex\_Division](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/aeb1de/32.png) [@Kel\_Varnsen\_Latex\_Division](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kel_Varnsen_Latex_Division)\
**Post date:** [November 12, 2004, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-conservative-colleges/273749/42 "2004-11-12T15:15:29Z")

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> Chicago is not conservative. It is an excellent school, but it is not conservative.

Isn’t the University of Chicago pretty well known for the its place in the conservative economics movement? Wasn’t it the first top school in the US to have a strong break from Keynesian economics?

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**Author:** ![Kel\_Varnsen\_Latex\_Division](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/aeb1de/32.png) [@Kel\_Varnsen\_Latex\_Division](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kel_Varnsen_Latex_Division)\
**Post date:** [November 12, 2004, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-conservative-colleges/273749/43 "2004-11-12T15:17:06Z")

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Let me fix that:

Isn’t the University of Chicago pretty well known for its place in the conservative economics movement? Wasn’t it the first top school in the US to have a strong break from Keynesian economics?

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**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\
**Post date:** [November 12, 2004, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-conservative-colleges/273749/44 "2004-11-12T16:23:51Z")

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Hillsboro (sp?) is a private college that I imagine is fairly conservative.

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**Author:** ![Nawth\_Chucka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c57346/32.png) [@Nawth\_Chucka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nawth_Chucka)\
**Post date:** [November 13, 2004, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-conservative-colleges/273749/45 "2004-11-13T04:45:04Z")

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Surprised no one’s mentioned Wheaton yet; at one point they had the largest number of married students at any college. It’s uber-Christian, Protestant flavor I believe.  
My very-most conservative friend went to Carnegie-Mellon, so there must be some kind of conservatism there to bolster him for his next three years at Michigan-A2.

Side note - we need a yawny emoticon…

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