Conservative-Leaning Colleges? Nominate one or more...

[Eternal Icicle]

I would say Claremont McKenna College. Though I believe its student body is technically 50/50, it's considerably more conservative than the neighboring members of the Claremont college consortium.They house a right leaning student publication for the 5-Cs and regularly host conservative speakers like Karl Rove. The campus feel has a significant Republican, and sometimes Libertarian, vibe.

[mhmm]

I would also add Sewanee, Univ of the South.

However reading this thread I was a bit confused - a lot of posters equate conservative, which I took to be politically/academically conservative from the OP, to the deeply religious/dry colleges. To my mind those (deeply rel) are not "conservative" academically since they espouse their own mantra. Am I misreading this, or are people just lumping things together? Tx

[austinareadad]

^ People are always lumping together economic conservatives with social conservatives even though it ends up just confusing the issue. Social conservatives and economic conservatives have not always been allies (note the William Jennings Bryan presidential campaigns that celebrated economic populism and conservative Christian values), and there are no compelling reasons that they must be allies. There really should be a third category for schools where students have more libertarian attitudes/values, i.e., where students are more liberal on the social issues and conservative on the economic issues. There could even be a fourth category of schools where most students are liberal on the economic issues and conservative on the social issues. Such schools would be rare because that is not a popular combination currently in the US, though it is popular in much of the world.

[usernamelm]

High Point University

[WhatIsNormal]

Biola
Pepperdine
Azusa
Point Loma Nazarene

[Ryan650]

Harvard and Stanford? There is hope.

[songman]

Hillsdale in Michigan

[MaineLonghorn]

MODERATOR'S NOTE: Please confine your comments to schools. General political discussion is not allowed - I had to delete a couple of posts for that reason.

[MutaRiSC]

Like other posters have said, Hillsdale College. They have a monthly conservative publication.

[schoolhouse]

did anyone say Bob Jones University?

[AUGirl]

Hate to disagree with prior post on first page of thread-our two just graduated from Furman, and despite it's southern location and old history with the Southern Baptist Convention, the faculty is very liberal, and in 2008 in a student-only vote, Obama trounced McCain. I would list SMU ( where the new W library is being built), Rollins ( the Pepperdine of the East), probably Suwanee ( could be wrong though), UGA, UAB. Wofford in Spartanburg, SC.

Yeah. I'd have to agree with this post. Wofford is a fairly conservative school, while Furman is fairly liberal. (Perhaps it isn't as liberal as other schools across the nation, but it stands in stark contrast to many other schools in South Carolina.) Neither are religious schools.

Bob Jones is "conservative", but I wouldn't recommend it to an average conservative or Republican who is looking for a welcoming environment. I consider myself to be very conservative and BJU is too much.

I think it's also good to look at Moderate schools... schools that don't lean heavily either way. I consider USC (South Carolina) to be a fairly moderate school. It's 50% in-state and 50% out-of-state. Most oos kids are liberal and most in-state kids are conservative. You have some that waver to the other side both in-state and out-of-state, but it ends up creating a pretty balanced environment. Our paper is definitely left-leaning, which is surprising for a southern state school a block from the State Capitol that still has the Confederate Flag waving.

[floridadad55]

Hillsdale College in Michigan.

They even advertise on conservative talk radio.

[Yenmor]

BYU, Pepperdine, Stanford

[sbjdorlo]

I think people are mistaken with Stanford. It's liberal, but on its school grounds stands the very conservative think tank, the Hoover Institute, which is not officially associated with Stanford.

I would also not put Pt. Loma Nazarene on the list. Some students are conservative but it's actually politically liberal.

I agree with:

Hillsdale
Grove City College
Biola
Univ. of Dallas
Patrick Henry


I'd add:

Cedarville
Belmont Abbey
Baylor (at least the student body)

Schools where conservatives will feel accepted easily, though they aren't conservative schools:

MIT
Princeton
Harvey Mudd
CMC

[invasion]

Also, many people are posting some elite universities because they "seem" conservative. I highly, highly doubt that a majority Princeton or CMC students are socially conservative, simply because the most intelligent people tend to be more open-minded. Fiscally conservative? Sure; most of these students are probably filthy rich. But as was stated in the original post, this thread is for socially conservative campuses.