<p>This example is getting a bit dated, but as I’ve said before McCain won the mock presidential election at MIT over Gore and Bush in the year 2000. I would say MIT is neither liberal or conservative. </p>
<p>Also, a magazine recently did an assessment of schools to see if they were a conservative-friendly environment. The three colors of a stoplight were the levels of conservative-friendliness–red (unfriendly), yellow (in between), green (friendly). MIT was the only top university with a green light. (For some reason Caltech wasn’t rated, but it probably would be the same.) I think HYP were yellow lights, and places like Brown and Oberlin were red lights.</p>
<p>While the humanities faculty (excluding econ) most certainly are leftist, they are not there to indoctrinate the students. If they were, they would have chosen another university to be at where that is the norm.</p>