You won't hear about them from the media, but there are some wonderful conservative colleges. Here are 5 that stand out to me.
1. Patrick Henry College- Patrick Henry College (PHC), named for the Founding Father who immortalized the phrase, "give me liberty, or give me death," is an institution of higher learning founded by conservative Christian constitutional lawyer Mike Farris, with the intention of creating a prestigious college to prepare evangelical homeschooled students for public service. The school is committed to Christian values and morality, which permeate academic and social aspects of campus life, and Farris' students often describe the school as "Harvard for Homeschoolers." Patrick Henry College is often the top-ranked college in the country in debate competitions, and has defeated the best debate team from England also. Foundational courses at PHC include Latin, Geometry, classical history (analyzed from a Christian perspective) and other basic elements of a classical education. Biology classes at PHC teach creationism. Mike Farris specifically chose this curriculum for its resemblance to the curriculum of the Founding Fathers.
2. New St. Andrews College-New Saint Andrews College is a classical Christian college located in Moscow, Idaho. It was founded in 1994 and modeled in part on the curriculum of Harvard College of the seventeenth century. The college offers no undergraduate majors, but follows a single, integrated classical liberal arts curriculum from a Christian worldview in its associate's and bachelor's degree programs. The college also offers master's degrees in theology & letters, and classical Christian studies. The New Saint Andrews board, faculty, and staff are confessionally Reformed (Calvinist). Board members are affiliated with the Communion of Reformed Evangelical Churches (CREC).
3. Hillsdale College-Hillsdale College in Hillsdale, Michigan was founded in 1844. It is a small, private, classical liberal arts college with a strong conservative and libertarian emphasis. The coeducational student body of about 1,300 students pursue a four-year curriculum leading to the BA (bachelor of arts) or BS (bachelor of science) degree. Hillsdale College is one of only three major colleges that has remained completely outside of federal regulations by declining federal funding and federally guaranteed student loans.
4. Christendom College-Christendom College is a classical Catholic liberal arts college in Front Royal, Virginia, United States, which is located in the Shenandoah Valley. It is endorsed by The Newman Guide to Choosing a Catholic College. Christendom College has two schools offering graduate and undergraduate degrees.
Undergraduate students combine a liberal arts core-curriculum with eventual upper-level courses in their major field (or fields) of study.
5. Thomas Aquinas College-Thomas Aquinas College is a small conservative, Catholic college located in Santa Paula, California. The college takes a classical approach to education: not relying on textbooks, but rather the "works of the best, most influential authors, poets, scientists, mathematicians, philosophers, and theologians of Western civilization." The college has only one major, Philosophy, and generally does not accept advanced placement or transfer credits. Some students even complete years of study elsewhere and start over at Thomas Aquinas College. The student body at Thomas Aquinas College is exceptionally talented, having higher average SAT scores than most similar colleges.
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Conservatives should be proud of all of these schools. I'm considering several of these schools for my undergraduate education.
