<p>The OP seems to be asking 2 questions (or maybe 3), which will not necessarily have the same answers.</p>
<p>The title seems to raise a question about how colleges manage their endowment funds and operating budgets. To answer that, you’d have to do some careful research into schools’ investment positions, expenses, debt levels, etc. I suspect this is not what the OP is really interested in, though.</p>
<p>Does the OP want to know what college economics departments tend to emphasize laissez-faire approaches in the study of economic theory? Yes, the University of Chicago has been famous for that. But most good economics departments will teach a variety of theoretical approaches in their undergraduate classes, possibly including whatever FiddlinEcon is calling “ideology crap”. </p>
<p>As for which colleges have the least altruistic students, how would we define or measure that? Maybe you’d want to look at something like the percentage of schools’ graduates who go into the Peace Corps. By that measure, the University of Chicago would be a bad choice, because graduates of that school have one of the highest per capita rates of PC volunteers.</p>
<p>adil91 might be interested in the Forbes survey of “Top Colleges for Getting Rich”, or the payscale.com college salary reports:
[Top</a> Colleges For Getting Rich - Forbes.com](<a href=“http://www.forbes.com/2008/07/30/college-salary-graduates-lead-cz_kb_0730topcolleges.html]Top”>Top Colleges For Getting Rich)
[Best</a> Colleges, Best College Majors, Best College Degrees](<a href=“http://www.payscale.com/best-colleges/]Best”>2023 College Rankings by Salary Potential | Payscale)
Many schools in these lists do have a lot of very liberal students, and tend to send many graduates into programs such as the Peace Corps or Teach for America.</p>
<p>He could check out so-called “Christian” colleges, where the students and the curriculum would be more conservative (assuming Quaker or Catholic don’t count as “Christian”.) But there, too, you are likely to find a certain service orientation that might be described as “altruistic.”</p>
<p>So on balance your best bet might be to choose a strong undergraduate business program at a school such as Northwestern or UPenn (Wharton), then seek out like-minded students if that’s who you want to befriend. Those 2 schools are extremely selective, though.</p>