What about the college experience makes someone less supportive of protectionism, immigration restrictions, nationalism, etc?
Anyone who has been exposed to economic courses - many of them VERY conservative - have a distaste for protectionism, as it's simply a bandaid for the inevitable. We shouldn't be doing things we're not the best at, or at least better than those countries who we could trade with. I wouldn't say immigration restrictions or nationalism are necessarily "driven out of you" at college, but I would say it's more likely that if you DIDN'T go to college, you'd find them more appealing? Not sure, really.