The 20 Best Conservative Colleges in America

The Best Schools ^ | 02/04/2019

[Hieronymus]

The first known person to be compelled to study Aristotelian philosophy by his father was the a son of King Philip of Macedon, who really had wanted to major in world conquest, but did ok anyway (I give talks pitching liberal arts to high school students a few times a year—it’s a good line provided the students know who Philip of Macedon is . . .

As far Christendom and TAC as graduates go, the same can be said of all 6 of the Catholic schools on the list.

How TAC came to be ranked sixth of the lot, I am intrigued to know. But there are some TAC grads that I can’t wait to tell . . .

[Dr. Sivana]

Problem is your particular school may require a class in maplethorpe.

I transferred from the University of Chicago to Christendom College BECAUSE that garbage isn't there. These schools have to be supported, not shunned because they don't take the federal dollars that support a world class chemistry lab.

The bad guys were taught accurately, as bad guys (Marx, Spinosa, Dewey, etc.). I even got to take a course called "Counterrevolutionary Theory", how's that for "politically incorrect"?

[Dr. Sivana]

How TAC came to be ranked sixth of the lot, I am intrigued to know. But there are some TAC grads that I can’t wait to tell . . .

I was surprised that for conservatism, both Steubenville and U of Dallas were ranked ahead of TAC and Christendom. It might have to do with the size of the graduate school program. TAC, of course, takes a purest "Great Books" approach. Christendom was founded by a historian, so we have history majors. (One of the jokes we had going around was that a TAC grad can tell you all about what Martin Luther said, but not when he said it. Aristotle had considered history the lowest of the academic disciplines. There was less of it when he wrote.)

Steubenville has a nasty infection of charismatics (Ave Maria suffers a similar influence) that TAC is immune from. U of D is uneven, though you can get a good education there if you want to. My best childhood friend lost the Faith there, even as he won the St. Thomas Aquinas award for being the top philosophy student in the class of '86. I don't know if that was the school's doing or not, but I always held it a bit against it.

Christendom takes zero fed money, and is near D.C., allowing many political internships for those who want to go that route. I wouldn't consider TAC at the time, as they would have zeroed out all those expensive U of Chicago transfer credits. Plus, CA was a bit too far from my home in Connecticut.

[Randy Larsen]

I learned from the school of hard knocks. I didn’t need some college to teach me what to think, life did!

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Hampden-Sydney College

Notable alumni include ... TV comedian Stephen Colbert ...

Well, that settles it, then.

Hampden-Sydney here we come.

[Hieronymus]

I had a professor in seminary who did his undergrad at U D in the 70’s, and have a colleague who did his grad work there beginning in the 90’s. Uneven is a good word. And the philosophy department seems to be in about a four-decade slide.

Transferring from Chicago to Christendom would have been quite the experience—esp. in the early to mid 80’s. I salute you.

But it was Morning in America Again at the time.

[Brilliant]

I wonder what they mean by “best”? Certainly Texas A&M deserves to be near the top of that list if you’re looking at the quality of the education. My suspicion is that someone is grading them based on how conservative they are rather than the quality of the education.

[attiladhun2]

Honorable mention to CBU in Riverside,CA and Life Pacific College (my alma mater).

[ro_dreaming]

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Odd, for Texas A&M they didn’t list President George W Bush as a notable alumnus.

[Richard Kimball]

I miss the old Southwest Conference jokes.

What do Aggies get on their SAT?
Drool.

Why did Texas Tech cheerleaders wear those little bibs on their cheerleader outfits?
To keep the tobacco juice off their blouse.

How do you get a Baylor co-ed into your dorm room?
Butter her hips and push real hard.

What's the difference between TCU and Rice?
150 miles and 300 points on the SAT.

[Richard Kimball]

Too lazy to research, but I think both George the Elder and George the Younger went to Yale. GHWBs library is at A&M, not sure why, and Ws is at SMU because after his presidency, his wife wanted to live in the metroplex close to SMU.

[Texas resident]

GW Bush didn’t attend A&M. His library is there.

A&M started out as a land grant college with specialties in Agriculture and Mechanics (A&M). For most of it’s time, the students come from small town America. Good kids, and a lot of them went into the military.

[Texas resident]

Sorry, The older Bush library is there.

[Texas resident]

The elder Bush wanted his library at College Station.

His reception after his funeral was outstanding.

The Corps of Cadets lined up on the road to salute him and there were thousands along the line of the railroad bringing him from Houston to College Station.

[Deplorable American1776]

Wait, no Harvard or Yale on the list...and no University of Connecticut or University of Massachusetts either?? Fake list... 😀

[TBP]

Former Reps. Philip Crane and Chris Chocola are Hillsdale alums, as are former NFLers Chester Marcol and Howard Mudd, Fisk College founder Clinton B. Fisk, Kat Timpf, and other notables.

And I am also.

[JacksonCalhoun]

I can’t go 5 pages in the UCONN Alumni rag I receive from time to time without some liberal trope being spewed. Straight to the garbage!

[TBP]

Free Will Baptist.

We used to joke that Pabst must be our official beer, because both were founded in 1844 and had the colors blue and white.

[TBP]

When did you live in Hillsdale?

[TBP]

Ironically, Monaghan sold the Tigers to Mike Ilitch, founder of Little Caesar’s. One pizza executive to another.