Navy Ranked 6th Most Conservative College

[GreatAmerican]

<p><a href=“http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/departments/college/?article=10schoolsPoliticallyConservative07[/url]”>http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/departments/college/?article=10schoolsPoliticallyConservative07&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>

6. United States Naval Academy (Annapolis, Maryland)
   The U.S. Naval Academy forges graduates who are “strong morally, mentally, and physically.” The academy’s atmosphere of “nonstop competition” instills “discipline, time management, and dedication,” as well as “great moral and ethical values.” While there is “an undercurrent of liberal thought and challenging of accepted norms” on campus, “the conservative mainstream remains just that, and always will.”</p>

<p>Students who considered USNA also looked at Duke University, Harvard College, the United States Air Force Academy, and the United States Military Academy…

</p>

<p>Rankings in other categories:</p>

<h1>2 Professors Make Themselves Accessible Academics</h1>

<h1>18 Their Students Never Stop Studying Academics</h1>

<h1>6 Everyone Plays Intramural Sports Extracurriculars</h1>

<h1>2 Don’t Inhale Parties (where’s Slick Willie?)</h1>

<h1>17 Got Milk? Parties (lack of beer)</h1>

<h1>16 Scotch and Soda, Hold the Scotch Parties</h1>

<h1>5 Stone-Cold Sober Schools Parties</h1>

<h1>11 Most Politically Active Politics</h1>

<h1>6 Students Most Nostalgic For Reagan Politics</h1>

<h1>10 Future Rotarians and Daughters of the American Revolution School Type</h1>

<h1>11 Jock Schools School Type</h1>

<h1>18 Town-Gown Relations Are Great Social</h1>

[heartcross]

<p>I chuckled reading that–my oldest applied to the first two on the list and will graduate from #1…</p>

[nurseypoo]

<p>Weren’t they ranked #3 for best engineering programs?</p>

[shogun]

<p>"United States Naval Academy (Annapolis, Maryland)
The U.S. Naval Academy forges graduates who are “strong morally, mentally, and physically.” The academy’s atmosphere of “nonstop competition” instills “discipline, time management, and dedication,” as well as “great moral and ethical values.” "</p>

<p>Interesting, I didn’t realize the above traits were definitions of “conservatism” vs “liberalism”.</p>

[Zaphod]

<p>Read the article.</p>

<p>

According to The Princeton Review’s annual survey of 115,000 college students at the Best 361 Colleges across the nation…

</p>

<p>And you and I could have one hell of a debate on the “definitions” of “conservatism” and “liberalism” as applied to the Mission of USNA, but this isn’t the place.</p>

[shogun]

<p>I did read it. The reasons they give when they discuss USNA just don’t add up to “conservatism” or liberalism". Perhaps its just a poorly written article.</p>

[Zaphod]

<p>Seems to me they asked the students and posted the results. Perhaps it is a poorly-written article, or else the data was poorly interpreted (always a danger in polls). </p>

<p>I dunno… </p>

[FewAndProud16]

<p>Where did the other category rankings come from? I’d like to read the article or listing to see what schools were in these categories.</p>

[Marine0311]

<p>According to Admission’s Board presentation at CVW Oct. 5-7; USNA ranked #5 in difficulty of engineering program</p>

[Profmom2]

<p>FewandProud: the rankings come from the Princeton Review</p>

<p><a href=“http://www.princetonreview.com/college/research/rankings/rankings.asp[/url]”>http://www.princetonreview.com/college/research/rankings/rankings.asp&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>You do need to register for a free account to see the rankings.</p>

[GreatAmerican]

<p>

Weren’t they ranked #3 for best engineering programs?

</p>

<p>The #3 ranking was from a different organization (i.e., US News & World Report). Navy is tied third with West Point for top undergraduate engineering programs.</p>