Top 20 most politically active schools in the U.S.

Here ye, here ye – the results for “Most Politically Active College” are in – but who made the cut?


The Princeton Review, the college standardized test preparation and admissions consulting company, recently released the results from its voluntary 80-question survey about college life and academics in which one of the questions asked students “How popular are political and activist organizations on campus?”


According to Rob Franek, the lead author of The Princeton Review’s “The Best 378 Colleges: 2014 Edition”, the results weren’t as surprising as you may think. 


“There are the usual suspects,” Franek told Red Alert Politics, speaking specifically about the number of D.C.-area schools that made the list.


Concerned that your school isn’t on the list but think it should be? Keep in mind that the survey is completely voluntary and was not necessarily distributed among or promoted at every school across the country.


“In any of these rankings lists, it’s based only on student opinions of their own experiences at their own universities,” Franek said.


Read the list of the Top 20 Most Politically Active Students below to see if your student body campaigned hard enough and filled out enough Princeton Review surveys to make the cut.

1. George Washington University

Washington, D.C.


2. New College of Florida

Sarasota, Fla.


 

3. Georgetown University

Washington, D.C.


 

4. American University

Washington, D.C.


 

5. Amherst College

Amherst, Mass.


 

6. United States Military Academy

West Point, N.Y.


 

7. Grinnell College

Grinnell, Iowa


 

8. New York University

New York, N.Y.


 

9. University of Chicago

Chicago, Ill.


 

10. Warren Wilson College

Asheville, N.C.


 

11. University of Southern California

Los Angeles, Calif.


 

12. University of Maryland

College Park, Md.


 

13. Vassar College

Poughkeepsie, N.Y.


 

14. Swarthmore College

Swarthmore, Pa.


 

15. United States Naval Academy

Annapolis, Md.


 

16. Macalester College

St. Paul, Minn.


 

17. Trinity College

Hartford, Conn.


 

18. Seton Hall University

South Orange, N.J.


 

19. Prescott College

Prescott, Ariz.


 

20. Marlboro College

Marlboro, Vt.


 

Not every college campus is obsessed with politics, however, and so The Princeton Review also compiled a list of colleges that might be asking “Election? What Election?” on the First Tuesday in November. The Top 5 politically inactive schools, according to the survey, are: Becker College in Worcester, Mass.; University of Tampa in Tampa, Fla.; Ohio Northern University in Ada, Ohio; University of Scranton in Scranton, Pa.; and Indiana University of Pennsylvania in Indiana, Pa.

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