Universities With The Most Liberal Students

Universities With The Most Liberal Students by: Naomi Nishihara on July 29, 2014 | 5 Comments Comments 9,298 Views July 29, 2014Each year the Princeton Review lists the top 20 schools with the most liberal students, and these schools switch out and trade places so dramatically that they make the conservative list seem especially steadfast and orderly.By viewing the rankings for the past five years all at once, youll find that  there are significantly more schools listed here than there are schools on the conservative list for the equivalent time period. This means, of course, that the schools pegged to have the most conservative student bodies are more likely to stay on that list in future years, while the most liberal school one year may not even be listed the next.A total of 37 have been on the  liberal  list at least once in the past five years, and of them, 13 made it only one time. There are eight schools that made the list for each of these five years, but even those schools jump all over the ranking, like Bennington College, which leapt from 12th to 2nd place in just one year. In fact, only one school, Warren Wilson College, has regularly ranked in the top five.The listings are based on students’ answers to the survey question: Politically, are you: left-wing, Democrat, middle, Republican, right-wing?† The easily overturned nature of the liberal list may be explained, in part, by the fact that it is determined by a survey. Thats  because  the percentage of liberal students is more easily changed in a small group than a larger one, and an  interesting trend that can be spotted  by looking at the past five years, is the size of these liberal schools. Every year, a vast majority of them are very small.Of the 37 schools that have been listed, 34 have undergraduate populations under 5,000. Only two of the schools, McGill University and the University of California Santa Cruz, have student populations larger than 10,000. Nine o f the listed schools actually have fewer than 1,000 undergraduates.Here are the schools with the Most Liberal Students:Ranking The Most Liberal  Students From 2014 to 2010.tftable {font-size:12px;color:#333333;width:100%;border-width: 1px;border-color: #729ea5;border-collapse: collapse;} .tftable th {font-size:12px;background-color:#acc8cc;border-width: 1px;padding: 8px;border-style: solid;border-color: #729ea5;text-align:left;} .tftable tr {background-color:#d4e3e5;} .tftable td {font-size:12px;border-width: 1px;padding: 8px;border-style: solid;border-color: #729ea5;} .tftable tr:hover {background-color:#ffffff;}2014 Rank School2014 Rank2013 Rank2012 Rank2011 Rank2010 RankBennington College121264Sarah Lawrence College23546Warren Wilson College35221Bard College41735Marlboro College51019117New College of Florida619353Macalester College741813College of the Atlantic86NRNRNRVassar College9NRNR1417Skidmore College101113NRNRLewis Clark College111616NR15Occidental College12NRNRNR10Belo it College13NRNR2020Reed College14720139Pitzer College15149NR11Mills College16NRNR1818Evergreen State College17814NR12Clark University18NRNR19NROberlin College19201110NRHarvard College20NRNRNRNREugene Lang CollegeNR94916Swarthmore CollegeNR12NRNR19Brandeis UniversityNR13NRNRNRGrinnell CollegeNR15NRNRNRSmith CollegeNR17NRNRNRUniversity of Puget SoundNR188NRNRHampshire CollegeNRNR6NR2Prescott CollegeNRNR1075McGill UniversityNRNR15NRNRGreen Mountain CollegeNRNR17NRNRScripps CollegeNRNR18NRNRHampshire CollegeNRNRNR1NRCarleton CollegeNRNRNR12NRMount Holyoke CollegeNRNRNR15NREmerson CollegeNRNRNR16NRUniversity of California Santa CruzNRNRNR17NRWesleyan UniversityNRNRNRNR14Source: The Princeton ReviewDONT MISS: UNIVERSITIES WITH THE MOST CONSERVATIVE STUDENTS Page 1 of 11