Most liberal and most conservative colleges?

TomServo
Fri, 15 Jul 2011 16:34:48 +0000

Location isn’t that reliable, as colleges and universities are environments of their own. In the South and Midwest they might be ultra-leftist enclaves, and in the Northeast or Left coast they might be libertarian enclaves.

For most liberal, I’d say UC Berkeley, Reed, Antioch, The New School, Bard, MIT, Duke, University of Pennsylvania.

But depending on the degree you get and the classes you take, you may never notice.

Outside of small specialist parochial colleges I don’t know of any conservative colleges in this country, but certain schools’ economics departments are known for their libertarianesque viewpoint: Harvard, George Mason, and once upon a time, U Chicago and UCLA (I’ve heard this isn’t true anymore). That said, virtually every economist, no matter how liberal, is well to the right of most humanities professors. Even an anti-free marketeer hack like Stiglitz is considered a capitalist pig by the typical Gender Theory professor.