Conservative Public Universities

[jimrtex]

I often hear people say that Purdue In W. Lafayette Indiana is conservative as far as public universities go. Although it is to the left of me (I consider it very moderate)  it certainly isn't the University of Wisconsin Madison or IU. Is this because it is a land grant college with agriculture and engineering? What other factors come into play? What other public universities have a conservative or moderate bent?

This is true of any state where there are two primary universities, with one the land grant college and the other the liberal arts:

Iowa State, Kansas State, Oklahoma State, Texas A&M, Purdue, Mississippi State, Auburn, Florida State, Clemson, Virginia Tech, Colorado State, Utah State, Oregon State, Washington State.

[jimrtex]

I often hear people say that Purdue In W. Lafayette Indiana is conservative as far as public universities go. Although it is to the left of me (I consider it very moderate)  it certainly isn't the University of Wisconsin Madison or IU. Is this because it is a land grant college with agriculture and engineering? What other factors come into play? What other public universities have a conservative or moderate bent?

This is true of any state where there are two primary universities, with one the land grant college and the other the liberal arts:

Iowa State, Kansas State, Oklahoma State, Texas A&M, Purdue, Mississippi State, Auburn, Florida State, Clemson, Virginia Tech, Colorado State, Utah State, Oregon State, Washington State.

Oregon State is liberal, and Florida State is liberal for North Fla. Mississippi State is conservative but less so than Ole Miss.

FSU and NCSU also have the liability of being in the state capital.

[jimrtex]

Purdue has a stereotype of being a pretty conservative school because of the presence of agriculture students.

My experience with engineers is not that they are conservative, but that they are more a-political than the rest of the population.

For the Big Ten, I'd rank liberal to conservative:

UW-Madison
Michigan

Northwestern
Minnesota


Michigan State
Iowa
Indiana
Illinois
Ohio State
Penn State



Purdue
Nebraska

You forgot Maryland and Rutgers!

You'd think he could count to ten.