Conservative Public Universities

[RINO Tom]

18-24 in 2016 is very different than 18-29 in 2015.  Those 2015 23-29 year olds are far, far more liberal than the 2015 17-22 year olds.  1992 serves as a breaking point between a more liberal and a more centrist (or, really, more evenly polarized) generation.

Do you have a source for those claims?

I doubt it. I have a source though:

http://www.cnn.com/election/2014/results/race/house#exit-polls

18-24: 54% Democrat 44% Republican 2% Other/NA
25-29: 54% Democrat 43% Republican 3% Other/NA

Not really much of a statistical difference.

Plus, that's a recent midterm, when many of the most liberal folks just stayed home.

Just because there's low turnout and Democrats get crushed does not NECESSARILY mean that liberals are staying home.  Midterms are always going to be lower turnout, and Democrats win some of them, too.

[RINO Tom]

I doubt the faculties of many public universities could be considered "conservative" (their livelihoods are DIRECTLY tied to more government spending and higher taxes), but there are certainly varying degrees.  For example, though both are liberal, the University of Iowa is certainly a bit more liberal than the University of Illinois.