The kids are all right.
The “Most Conservative College” in the country is just a short drive from liberal Los Angeles, according to the 2026 Best Colleges guide from the Princeton Review .
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“The colleges we profile in our ‘Best Colleges’ book are a truly select group. They constitute only about 15% of America’s nearly 2,400 four-year institutions,” said Rob Franek , Editor-in-Chief of The Princeton Review and the book’s lead author.
To produce the report, researchers surveyed 170,000 students.
“We don’t rank colleges based on our opinion of them nor would we crown a school ‘best’ overall,” Franek explained.
“Our goal since day one on this project,” he continued, “has been to p