Universities With The Most Conservative Students

University campuses are full of young people, and young people are usually liberals. In fact, the home page of the UC Berkeley College Republicans website acknowledges this left-leaning pattern by boldly claiming “FEAR NOT. Even here, in crazy, liberal, “beserk” Berkeley, there is hope. Even here, at the heart of liberalism on Earth, we stand proud.”

Of course, there have been times when the Berkeley College Republicans stood quite alone too, like when they held a racially controversial bake sale that hundreds of their fellow students protested.

There are other schools, however, where conservatives make the majority of the student body, and each year, the Princeton Review publishes a ranking of the Top 20 Schools with the Most Conservative Students. The list is based on students’ assessment of their personal political views, collected through the survey question: “Politically, are you: left-wing, Democrat, middle, Republican, right-wing?”

In the past five years, some schools have made the list once, and never appeared again. A dozen other colleges, including not surprisingly, the United States Military Academy, the United States Merchant Marine Academy, and the United States Coast Guard Academy, are regulars. By looking at five years at once, we can spot the schools that consistently make the top of the list and watch as others climb in and out of right-wing prominence.

Here are the schools with the Most Conservative Students:

Ranking The ‘Most Conservative Students’ From 2014 to 2010

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Source: The Princeton Review