Would a Hillsdale graduate have reduced professional opportunities?

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Hillsdale has a very solid academic reputation and ranking. Academics are 2nd to UofM for Michigan colleges. Most employers aren’t going to care about the political leaning of your undergraduate college, so long as politics isn’t involved in your employment

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Anonymous wrote:Hillsdale has a very solid academic reputation and ranking. Academics are 2nd to UofM for Michigan colleges. Most employers aren’t going to care about the political leaning of your undergraduate college, so long as politics isn’t involved in your employment

Kenyon is 2nd school in Michigan

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Anonymous wrote:Hillsdale has a very solid academic reputation and ranking. Academics are 2nd to UofM for Michigan colleges. Most employers aren’t going to care about the political leaning of your undergraduate college, so long as politics isn’t involved in your employment

Kenyon is 2nd school in Michigan

Except that Kenyon is in Ohio.

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Anonymous wrote:Hillsdale has a very solid academic reputation and ranking. Academics are 2nd to UofM for Michigan colleges. Most employers aren’t going to care about the political leaning of your undergraduate college, so long as politics isn’t involved in your employment

Kenyon is 2nd school in Michigan

Except that Kenyon is in Ohio.

And second to Dennison there now.

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Anonymous wrote:Hillsdale has a very solid academic reputation and ranking. Academics are 2nd to UofM for Michigan colleges. Most employers aren’t going to care about the political leaning of your undergraduate college, so long as politics isn’t involved in your employment

Hillsdale doesn't even make the top five in Michigan. 100% would avoid as a hiring manager.

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Anonymous wrote:Hillsdale has a very solid academic reputation and ranking. Academics are 2nd to UofM for Michigan colleges. Most employers aren’t going to care about the political leaning of your undergraduate college, so long as politics isn’t involved in your employment

Hillsdale doesn't even make the top five in Michigan. 100% would avoid as a hiring manager.

Did you ride the short bus? Hillsdale is literally second in Michigan by every meaningful and quantifiable metric that exists.

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Another PP gave some good suggestions like Sewanee, Wofford and the like.

There are other more politically neutral type schools like Providence and Trinity. (However those are not academic powerhouses.)

If your son likes the (supposed) intellectual vibe at Hillsdale, I'd look at Sewanee. That said contrary to its reputation there are a wide range of political views, so he would interact with people with different (which overall means more intellectual growth.)

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I do not know a lot about Midwestern LACs other than the Ohio schools which are different from Hillsdale. I had a colleague whom I respected who graduated from Wabash College which is kind of like the Midwestern version of Hampden-Sydney.

On an unrelated sidenote, if you are Catholic and want to dump on Hillsdale, look up Franciscan or Christendom. (I am not recommending those schools, but they are essentially the Catholic Hillsdales.)

Also, as someone who considers themselves progressive, I would not discriminate against anyone for attending their state flagship university. People have many reasons for choosing the college they do. I have worked with Florida and Alabama grads who have sharp analytical skills. (Many of these people are minorities who have been liberal-minded.)

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I randomly used to get alumni mail for Hillsdale from a previous tenant where I lived giving me insight into what this school is all about. The writings by current professors were absolutely unhinged. If people are familiar with it and it didn’t aligned with their politics, I think they would think twice about a hiring someone from there, especially if the hiring manager was a women because what I read was not even veiled misogyny as well as many other fringe views. It might open some doors very conservative think tanks if that’s your jam, but if you are a mainstream conservative, I’d avoid this place like the plague.

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Anonymous wrote:Hillsdale has a very solid academic reputation and ranking. Academics are 2nd to UofM for Michigan colleges. Most employers aren’t going to care about the political leaning of your undergraduate college, so long as politics isn’t involved in your employment

Hillsdale doesn't even make the top five in Michigan. 100% would avoid as a hiring manager.

Did you ride the short bus? Hillsdale is literally second in Michigan by every meaningful and quantifiable metric that exists.

And this is why I would avoid a Hillsdale grad.

I would rank MSU, Tech, Eastern, Northern, and Mercy well above Hillsdale. Probably Oakland and Wayne State too, but those are more debatable.

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Anonymous wrote:Hillsdale will be treated like ones from Liberty or Notre Dame. At certain employers they won't want to hire from these types of schools. Same for Florida, Alabama, etc.

Equating Hillsdale or Liberty to Notre Dame seems uninformed, if not provocative.

Notre Dame is a Top 25 university that has broad recognition as such, along with one of the largest, most engaged, most influential alumni networks in the U.S. and across the globe.

Hillsdale and Liberty are indoctrination centers that happen to have a campus.

Like Oberlin or Bard or Hampshire or Reed, eh?

They may be too liberal for your tastes but academia recognizes Oberlin and Reed as excellent schools. They both regularly show up on lists of PhD feeder schools. The list also contains many other SLACs. What isn’t a surprise is that Hillsdale is never on these lists.

https://thecollegesolution.com/the-colleges-where-phds-get-their-start/

DP. You may want to sit down for this. USNWR National Liberal Arts College rankings:

Hillsdale #50
Oberlin #58
Reed #63

Classic striver comment. USNWR has been a joke since they changed the criteria. Yale and Harvard Law formally withdrew from reporting in 2022. I’m much more interested in where my kid goes to grad school. And Hillsdale will get them nowhere.

Tell us you're ignorant without actually telling us.

https://www.hillsdale.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/GraduatePlacementReportTRIFOLD_Digital_3-25.pdf

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Anonymous wrote:Hillsdale will be treated like ones from Liberty or Notre Dame. At certain employers they won't want to hire from these types of schools. Same for Florida, Alabama, etc.

Equating Hillsdale or Liberty to Notre Dame seems uninformed, if not provocative.

Notre Dame is a Top 25 university that has broad recognition as such, along with one of the largest, most engaged, most influential alumni networks in the U.S. and across the globe.

Hillsdale and Liberty are indoctrination centers that happen to have a campus.

Like Oberlin or Bard or Hampshire or Reed, eh?

They may be too liberal for your tastes but academia recognizes Oberlin and Reed as excellent schools. They both regularly show up on lists of PhD feeder schools. The list also contains many other SLACs. What isn’t a surprise is that Hillsdale is never on these lists.

https://thecollegesolution.com/the-colleges-where-phds-get-their-start/

DP. You may want to sit down for this. USNWR National Liberal Arts College rankings:

Hillsdale #50
Oberlin #58
Reed #63

Reed does not cooperate with USNWR for rankings purposes. So the ranking is dubious.

Not really. All of the data they need is in the public domain.

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Anonymous wrote:If any rational person would like to study a condensed view of the insulated echo chamber that is the wealthy elitist left, just read through the responses in this thread.

It's just intellectually lazy to classify people into groups based on your own predetermined biases. Saying a kid from Hillsdale is some MAGA nut is the same as saying all black people are criminals. It's staggering that more leftists don't see that...

Back to the topic (which is just political clickbait), each candidate should be judged on the entirety of their profile - not just where they went to school. I'd rather hire someone who comes from Community College with a lesser pedigree but works hard vs. a blue haired, trust fund high performer from NYU who is easily triggered and will need alot of down time to recover from their various emotional traumas.

What's intellectually lazy is equating racial discrimination with political bias. No one can help the color they are born with, and it isn't predictive of values or choices. A purposeful and freely-chosen association with a political entity can be predictive of values and choices, however. You acknowledge this yourself in your rant about 'leftists' and what you think they think. Criticizing others for a thing you are actively doing it yourself is a maneuver only trolls think is clever.

Not the PP, but they are correct. All one has to do is read this thread - or any of the threads on the Political forum - to see what "leftists" think about conservatives. Or really, anyone who isn't 100% on the same page as them. What's intellectually lazy is pretending we can't see what's right in front of our own eyes.

This 100%...even on on this forum. Enter poster who accuses student who turns down Georgetown for BC as being MAGA because they wanted a more Catholic envirnonment.

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Or the ahole who flings "MAGA!!" at anyone sending their kids to college in the south. What a psycho.

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Anonymous wrote:If any rational person would like to study a condensed view of the insulated echo chamber that is the wealthy elitist left, just read through the responses in this thread.

It's just intellectually lazy to classify people into groups based on your own predetermined biases. Saying a kid from Hillsdale is some MAGA nut is the same as saying all black people are criminals. It's staggering that more leftists don't see that...

Back to the topic (which is just political clickbait), each candidate should be judged on the entirety of their profile - not just where they went to school. I'd rather hire someone who comes from Community College with a lesser pedigree but works hard vs. a blue haired, trust fund high performer from NYU who is easily triggered and will need alot of down time to recover from their various emotional traumas.

What's intellectually lazy is equating racial discrimination with political bias. No one can help the color they are born with, and it isn't predictive of values or choices. A purposeful and freely-chosen association with a political entity can be predictive of values and choices, however. You acknowledge this yourself in your rant about 'leftists' and what you think they think. Criticizing others for a thing you are actively doing it yourself is a maneuver only trolls think is clever.

Not the PP, but they are correct. All one has to do is read this thread - or any of the threads on the Political forum - to see what "leftists" think about conservatives. Or really, anyone who isn't 100% on the same page as them. What's intellectually lazy is pretending we can't see what's right in front of our own eyes.

This 100%...even on on this forum. Enter poster who accuses student who turns down Georgetown for BC as being MAGA because they wanted a more Catholic envirnonment.

Fiction

DP. Case in point: calling something "fiction" that all of us have seen with our own eyes. Maybe someday you'll outgrow gaslighting.

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Anonymous wrote:Hillsdale has a very solid academic reputation and ranking. Academics are 2nd to UofM for Michigan colleges. Most employers aren’t going to care about the political leaning of your undergraduate college, so long as politics isn’t involved in your employment

Hillsdale doesn't even make the top five in Michigan. 100% would avoid as a hiring manager.

Did you ride the short bus? Hillsdale is literally second in Michigan by every meaningful and quantifiable metric that exists.

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UMichigan has a 16% acceptance rate. Hillsdale is next with 20%.

https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/hillsdale-college-2272
https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/university-of-michigan-ann-arbor-9092/applying