Hillsdale College has highly competent scholars teaching all the main academic subjects with particular emphasis on giving its students an honest understanding of American history and its founding principles and how they have influenced its development. Hillsdale has several initiatives in addition to providing an outstanding well-rounded undergraduate college education. They include very comprehensive selection of online courses in history, economics, political philosophy, etc., which can be found by accessing Hillsdale’s website. Hillsdale online courses have several million participants. Hillsdale has established the Kirby Center for Constitutional studies in Washington DC and the Hillsdale Graduate School of Government also at the Kirby Center. Hillsdale also has the Barney charter school initiative in classical education which initiates, provides limited funding for, extensive advice, and course materials for charter schools in well over a dozen American communities. Copied from thebestcolleges.org: “Hillsdale College is a private, non-sectarian, coeducational, liberal arts college. It has a long tradition of patriotism. …Hillsdale College does not accept federal or state subsidies. The rigorous core curriculum is rooted in the enduring truths of the Western tradition. It is one of only two colleges in the nation to require all students, regardless of major, to take a class in the U.S. Constitution. In addition to the core, all students take classes on Western Heritage and American Heritage. As Hillsdale’s mission states, “Through education, the student rises to self-government…” Learn more at hillsdale.edu Read More
Conservative American Colleges and Universities
This list includes the majority of the most significant conservative, or somewhat conservative, colleges and universities in the United States, and since there are thousands, and several hundred significant ones, it is obvious that colleges and universities with a conservative and moderate slant are a tiny minority.
The list is not ranked in order of most conservative, but Hillsdale, Grove city College, and Wheaton are probably the most faithful in teaching in the classical tradition.