California’s most conservative faculty revealed in new US rating

A Southern California Christian faculty has emerged because the Golden State’s most conservative faculty campus — touchdown inside a high 25 nationwide rating for 2026.

The Area of interest faculty rankings web site positioned Biola College at No. 24 total, making it the highest-ranked California faculty on the record.

The personal evangelical college is about 25 miles southeast of Los Angeles in La Mirada and is thought for its explicitly faith-based curriculum and campus tradition, the place college students are required to finish Bible coursework and lecturers are built-in with Christian teachings.

Based in 1908 because the Bible Institute of Los Angeles, Biola has maintained a powerful non secular id rooted in conservative theology, whereas increasing to supply greater than 150 packages starting from undergraduate levels to doctorates.

The varsity enrolls greater than 5,000 college students throughout undergrad and graduate packages and awards over $70 million in monetary support yearly, in response to its web site.

No different California colleges cracked the highest 25.

Within the high 100 most conservative faculty rankings per Area of interest, the Golden State lands simply two extra spots: California Baptist College in Riverside at No. 44, and Nationwide College in San Diego is available in at No. 81.

How the rankings had been determind

Area of interest’s “most conservative faculty” rankings leans closely on pupil sentiment.

Eighty % of the rating is predicated on college students self-reporting their very own political beliefs, whereas the remaining 20% displays how college students understand the broader political local weather on campus.

Surveys are submitted by present or current college students on the platform.

Religion-based colleges doctrine

The complete record is essentially made up of spiritual establishments, significantly Christian universities, the place campus tradition usually aligns extra carefully with conservative values.

At Biola, that tradition is central to the expertise. The college describes itself as “essentially the most comprehensively Christian college in North America,” with all packages designed to combine religion into lecturers and pupil life.

College students incessantly level to the college’s close-knit, faith-driven group and emphasis on non secular improvement alongside lecturers, in response to opinions compiled by Area of interest.

Prime 25 most conservative faculties in America

1. Liberty College (Virginia)
2. Grove Metropolis School (Pennsylvania)
3. Brigham Younger College-Idaho (Idaho)
4. Colorado Christian College (Colorado)
5. Bob Jones College (South Carolina)
6. Cedarville College (Ohio)
7. Pensacola Christian School (Florida)
8. College of Northwestern-St. Paul (Minnesota)
9. Brigham Younger College (Utah)
10. Regent College (Virginia)
11. Evangel College
12. Grace School (Indiana)
13. Oral Roberts College (Oklahoma)
14. North Greenville College (South Carolina)
15. Mississippi School (Mississippi)
16. College of Mary (North Dakota)
17. Lee College (Tennessee)
18. Snow School (Utah)
19. Baylor College (Texas)
20. Samford College (Alabama)
21. Utah Valley College (Utah)
22. Auburn College (Alabama)
23. Northwestern School (Iowa)
24. Biola College (California)
25. College of Arkansas (Arkansas)

Whereas California is residence to a number of the nation’s most politically liberal campuses, the rankings recommend its most conservative enclaves are concentrated in smaller, personal — and sometimes non secular — universities simply exterior main city facilities.

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