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

[atomom]

Conservative Catholics would call Jesuit schools "liberal."
The Newman Guide to Choosing a Catholic College lists Catholic schools that would be considered "conservative."
Many of them have already been mentioned: Thomas Aquinas College (CA), University of Dallas, Franciscan U.(Steubenville), Ave Maria (FL), Belmont Abbey (NC), etc.
Benedictine College (KS), Wyoming Catholic, U. of St. Thomas (Houston) are a few others.
Catholic U. of America, where the religion and philosophy depts. are orthodox, is included in the Newman Guide, but most of the undergrads there are probably not that conservative.

I would guess that conservative students would feel comfortable at many large state universities in the midwest and south--and especially those schools that are career/engineering/ag.-oriented because those students tend to care more about getting jobs and aren't so interested in politics. Schools like Purdue, Missouri S&T (formerly U. MO-Rolla) or K-State come to mind. Just about any school in Texas or OK would have a large percentage of conservatives.

[spackler]

Yale and to a lesser extent Princeton are the conservative Ivys.

[MizzBee]

Wabash College is a good example of a conservative college. The students are generally a bit more conservative than the professors, but it is not known for conservatives that decry bias. With its classic liberal-art curriculum it stresses the classics and encourages debate. Plenty of Midwestern politicians are graduates, with Republicans an overwhelming majority. Religion, Classics, Rhetoric are popular classes.

My son is a very liberal Democrat who is also thriving there, and values debating with his classmates. Socially it is a pretty wet campus and the school follows only one rule: to be a gentleman.

DePauw in Indiana is also a moderate to conservative institution.

[Chesh1]

Thanks everyone for your input! This will help greatly as we build our list of conservative schools for inclusion in our college search tool, SuperMatch: College Search - College Confidential

[zenzic]

Cornell is definitely left-leaning overall but there's a large conservative presence. Same with Harvard, Princeton, and to a greater extent Dartmouth

[RMIBstudent]

It's difficult for a college to lean conservative. The liberal arts are fiercely leftist, the sciences are fiercely leftist, mathematics and engineering are fairly leftist...

It's all an evil Liberal Science Secular Intellectual Conspiracy!