Campus conservatives: They exist. You just need to know where to look
UC-Berkeley has long been known as a hotbed of liberal politics and more recently the epicenter of the Free Speech Movement has become a theater of protest violence in the Trump era. But these days, it’s not just Berkeley anymore. Colleges everywhere are making headlines for hyper-liberal student protests.
Some might say the phenomena began with UC Berkeley in February 2017, when right-wing writer Milo Yiannopoulos was scheduled to speak on campus. A peaceful student protest erupted, ultimately inflicting $100,000 in damage to the campus.
And then at Middlebury College in March 2017, student protesters shut down a talk by Charles Murray, author of The Bell Curve, preventing him from speaking, and injuring the Middlebury professor who was with him.
WHERE ARE THE COLLEGE-AGED CONSERVATIVES?
Over and over again, this pattern has repeated itself. In April, demonstrators at Claremont McKenna College disrupted a speech by pro-police author Heather MacDonald. More recently, Bethune-Cookman University students booed, and walked out during Betsy DeVos’ commencement speech.
So where – in a sea of liberal-learning universities – are the college-aged conservatives? There probably aren’t too many at the schools mentioned above. But every year The Princeton Review compiles a list of the universities with the most conservative students, based on student surveys. Poets&Quants has compiled the most recent Princeton Review lists below.
Ranking The ‘Most Conservative Students’ From 2017-2014
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| 2017 Rank & School | 2017 Rank | 2016 Rank | 2015 Rank | 2014 Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brigham Young University | 1 | 5 | 9 | 15 |
| Baylor University | 2 | 15 | 20 | 17 |
| Thomas Aquinas College | 3 | 1 | 2 | 7 |
| University of Dallas | 4 | 6 | 5 | 6 |
| College of the Ozarks | 5 | 8 | 4 | 5 |
| Grove City College | 6 | 2 | 3 | 3 |
| Hillsdale College | 7 | 3 | 10 | 4 |
| Hampden-Sydney College | 8 | 11 | 8 | 9 |
| United States Naval Academy | 9 | 9 | 15 | 10 |
| United States Air Force Academy | 10 | NR | NR | 19 |
| United States Coast Guard Academy | 11 | NR | 16 | 11 |
| Wheaton College (IL) | 12 | NR | 14 | 14 |
| United States Military Academy | 13 | 7 | 13 | 8 |
| Texas A&M University – College Station | 14 | 4 | 1 | 2 |
| University of Louisiana at Lafayette | 15 | NR | NR | NR |
| Angelo State University | 16 | NR | NR | NR |
| Wofford College | 17 | 14 | 11 | NR |
| Bryant University | 18 | NR | NR | NR |
| University of Dayton | 19 | NR | NR | NR |
| Kansas State University | 20 | NR | 19 | 18 |
| United States Merchant Marine Academy | NR | 10 | 6 | 12 |
| Auburn University | NR | 12 | 7 | 1 |
| Clemson University | NR | 13 | 12 | 13 |
| Catholic University of America | NR | 16 | NR | 20 |
| University of Nebraska – Lincoln | NR | 17 | NR | NR |
| Ohio Northern University | NR | 18 | NR | NR |
| University of North Dakota | NR | 19 | NR | NR |
| University of Oklahoma | NR | 20 | NR | NR |
| Gordon College | NR | NR | 17 | NR |
| Angelo State University | NR | NR | 18 | 16 |
Source: The Princeton Review
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