Posted on 03/25/2015 8:41:27 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
As part of its annual college rankings, The Princeton Review ranks the US colleges with the most conservative students.
While a few of the schools on the list are big sports and party schools, 20% of the colleges in the ranking are military schools.
Over half of the most conservative colleges on the list also appeared on the Review's lists of the most religious students, students who are stone cold sober, and students who don't smoke.
A whopping 17 of the 20 schools were ranked on The Princeton Review's list of future Rotarians and Daughters of the American Revolution.
Texas, a red state, is the most widely represented state to make the list, and seven of the schools are located in the south. Overall, the most conservative schools are scattered all over the country and significantly vary in size. From the 47,093 students at Texas A&M to the 378 students at Thomas Aquinas College, here are the schools with the most conservative students.
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4 MILITARY ACADEMIES ARE ON THE LIST:
United States Merchant Marine Academy – Kings Point, New York
United States Military Academy – West Point, New York
United States Naval Academy – Annapolis, Maryland
United States Coast Guard Academy – New London, Connecticut
Not the Air Force, huh?
RE: Not the Air Force, huh?
Maybe they’re Number 21 :)
K-State? That’s pretty surprising.
•Texas A&M University – College Station, Texas
•Thomas Aquinas College – Santa Paula, California
•Grove City College – Grove City, Pennsylvania
•College of the Ozarks – Point Lookout, Missouri
•University of Dallas – Irving, Texas
•United States Merchant Marine Academy – Kings Point, New York
•Auburn University – Auburn, Alabama
•Hampden-Sydney College – Hampden-Sydney, Virginia
•Brigham Young University – Provo, Utah
•Hillsdale College – Hillsdale, Michigan
•Wofford College – Spartanburg, South Carolina
•Clemson University – Clemson, South Carolina
•United States Military Academy – West Point, New York
•Wheaton College – Wheaton, Illinois
•United States Naval Academy – Annapolis, Maryland
•United States Coast Guard Academy – New London, Connecticut
•Gordon College – Wenham, Massachusetts
•Angelo State University – San Angelo, Texas
•Kansas State University – Manhattan, Kansas
•Baylor University – Waco, Texas
Tally by percentage would shake the list up some.
Liberals go out of their way to avoid sending a kid to Hillsdale college.
Makes me happy. I’m a Jayhawk but have said I won’t pay for our granddaughter to go there because it is a party school and a bit wacky and left wing. It would be a bit painful to send her to K-State but the tuition would be instate and it would be under some conditions... no women or gender studies, I get to see the grades every semester, and she needs to find and be involved with a Christian Youth group. I would prefer the Newman Center but could live with another group.
I agree with you. I work at KSU and was quite surprised to see this.
Anyone know more about the College of the Ozarks other than you work for your education?
Good Auburn made the list again... War Eagle!!
I was going to play with you a little and suggest the Lutheran youth group at KSU, but then I looked it up and it's ELCA, so nix that idea. There's a good-looking LCMS church near the campus, though, cf. here, if you want to send her to experience the One True Faith :)
They operate an airport. I saw lots of college age kids working there, I presume all students of the college.
Hillsdale has lots of scholarships. It cost me about the same to send my daughters there as it would have to attend our state’s flagship public university.
Not a surprise, actually.
The USAF Academy is wacko politically correct.
The real surprise is that Naval Academy made it!
I visited K-State when I was looking for PhD programs. Their PhD program was very interesting, but everyone seemed to be trying really hard to talk over my head. It was intimidating for a guy with no graduate training. Later I made contact with a professor to discuss my research interest. He wrote that I should not go there because, “as a gay man, I have no respect for a religion that made me feel so guilty that I contemplated suicide.” He said I should “go to a religious college.”
I’m now working on a PhD at KU. My professors are pretty much all leftists, but they seem kind of respectful to other views. Since being here I noticed an opportunity that hasn’t been tapped: the libertarian streak that many American liberals have. There’s nothing like that in Leftist politicians: Obama, Holder, Reid, the Media, Pelosi, et al. are not interested in your liberty. Many professors, on the other hand, see the need for more ‘complexity’ and ‘spontaneity’ in policy. These are overtly libertarian ideas. We can live with libertarians.
Why am I writing all this? I guess because I’m trying to say that Lawrence really isn’t that bad, and a well reasoned conservative who knows her arguments and the left’s, and is spiritually/ philosophically grounded should do fine.
However, I did take part in an Overpass Demonstration on illegal immigration last summer. I got to see some ugly intolerance from the left. We even got the campus police called on us.
If I were a wealthy man I would seek out top of the class inner city Detroit kids and give them full ride scholarships to Hillsdale college.
Hopefully they would return to Detroit and work to make things better.
Sic em Bears.
Lots of ways of measuring such things. Compared to the University of Michigan, Michigan State is practically Amish.
It’s near Branson where Silver Dollar City is, which is an excellent theme park. The Ozarks are very beautiful. It’s truly Christ Centered as far as I know (unlike Baylor for example). It usually makes the top ten in Christian College lists.
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