Would a Hillsdale graduate have reduced professional opportunities?

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Anonymous wrote: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.


We receive Imprimus (Hillsdale's publication) and I have no idea what you're talking about. I've read some very interesting pieces and not one has been anything close to what you describe. Are you talking about Imprimus? Please link to an example of "misogyny" or "fringe views" in their publications.
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Yes, it will hurt him.

There are plenty of "clean cut" options at large state flagships as well as private smaller colleges.
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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


Your link proves my point perfectly - it’s utterly unimpressive. Especially since Hillsdale’s top majors include biology, history and English (majors which regularly lead to PhD programs).

Hillsdale didn’t break the top 100 for PhD feeder schools. Schools that made the list of PhD feeders? Reed, Oberlin, Bard, Hampshire and a school called…Tougaloo College. lol.

Undergraduate Origins of Doctoral Degrees - Percentage ranking of doctorates, all disciplines, conferred upon graduates of listed institutions.
2013-2022
Institution Name Percent
1 CalTech 41%
2 Harvey Mudd C. 29%
3 Swarthmore C. 22%
4 MIT 20%
5 Reed C. 19%
6 Carleton C. 18%
7 Olin C. Engineering 17%
8 U. Chicago 17%
9 Haverford C. 16%
10 Grinnell C. 16%
11 Pomona C. 15%
12 Williams C. 14%
13 Princeton U. 14%
14 New C. Florida 14%
15 Yale U. 13%
16 Harvard U. 13%
17 Bryn Mawr C. 13%
18 Rice U. 12%
19 Oberlin C. 12%
20 St. John's C., Santa Fe 12%
21-30 Amherst C. 12%
Brown U. 12%
Macalester C. 11%
Wellesley C. 11%
Wesleyan U. 11%
Vassar C. 11%
Stanford U. 11%
St. John's C., Annapolis 10%
Case Western Reserve U. 10%
Whitman C. 10%
31-40 Kalamazoo C. 10%
Mount Holyoke C. 10%
U. Rochester 10%
Dartmouth C. 10%
Cornell U. 10%
Bowdoin C. 10%
Kenyon C. 10%
Hendrix C. 9%
Scripps C. 9%
U. North Georgia 9%
41-50 Duke U. 9%
Barnard C. 9%
Smith C. 9%
Columbia U. 9%
St. Olaf C. 9%
New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology 9%
Cooper Union 9%
Johns Hopkins U. 9%
Washington U., Saint Louis 8%
Brandeis U. 8%
51-60 Davidson C. 8%
William & Mary 8%
Hampshire C. 8%
Carnegie Mellon U. 8%
Earlham C. 8%
Colby C. 8%
Spelman C. 8%
C. Wooster 8%
Agnes Scott C. 8%
Middlebury C. 8%
Bard C. 8%
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 8%
Centre C. 7%
Tufts U. 7%
Colorado C. 7%
Beloit C. 7%
U. California, Berkeley 7%
Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology 7%
Wheaton C. (IL) 7%
Rhodes C. 7%
Lawrence U. 7%
Sarah Lawrence C. 7%
Lewis and Clark C. 7%
Juniata C. 7%
Colorado School of Mines 7%
Millsaps C. 7%
Northwestern U. 7%
Colgate U. 7%
Fisk U. 7%
Southwestern U. 7%
81-90 Bates C. 7%
Hanover C. 7%
Wabash C. 7%
Worcester Polytechnic Institute 7%
Trinity U. (TX) 7%
U. Notre Dame 7%
Lafayette C. 6%
Knox C. 6%
U. California, Merced 6%
U. Pennsylvania 6%
Franklin and Marshall C. 6%
Vanderbilt U. 6%
EMORY U. 6%
Occidental C. 6%
Furman U. 6%
Hamilton C. 6%
Tougaloo C. C. 6%
U. Michigan 6%
U. Dallas 6%
New England Conservatory 6%

Source: National Science Foundation and Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System.


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Anonymous wrote: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.


We receive Imprimus (Hillsdale's publication) and I have no idea what you're talking about. I've read some very interesting pieces and not one has been anything close to what you describe. Are you talking about Imprimus? Please link to an example of "misogyny" or "fringe views" in their publications.


I couldn’t find what poster was talking about and was curious so did done digging. This article basically defends Jan 6, so I agree with fringe views assessment: https://imprimis.hillsdale.edu/what-we-know-and-what-we-dont-about-january-6/
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I’m PP. Meant to add this more recent one arguing against birth right citizenship, even though it’s constitutionally defined: https://imprimis.hillsdale.edu/are-we-subjects-or-citizens-birthright-citizenship-and-the-constitution/
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I couldn’t find what poster was talking about and was curious so did done digging. This article basically defends Jan 6, so I agree with fringe views assessment: https://imprimis.hillsdale.edu/what-we-know-and-what-we-dont-about-january-6/


Jan 6 lol - the default talking point...as if the colleges listed as elite by leftists here haven't seen their share of violence, rioting and mayhem
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Anonymous wrote:As a lawyer, I wouldn’t hire a Hillsdale grad even if they did well at a top law school. Why hire someone with a background that might turn off some clients?


So a kid that graduated from Harvard Law School but did their undergrad at Hillsdale would get immediately dismissed as a nutcase by you? lol

The elitism displayed by the leftists on these forums is staggering...and revolting




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Anonymous wrote:As a lawyer, I wouldn’t hire a Hillsdale grad even if they did well at a top law school. Why hire someone with a background that might turn off some clients?


So a kid that graduated from Harvard Law School but did their undergrad at Hillsdale would get immediately dismissed as a nutcase by you? lol

The elitism displayed by the leftists on these forums is staggering...and revolting



Avoiding nut jobs isn’t “elitism”.
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I couldn’t find what poster was talking about and was curious so did done digging. This article basically defends Jan 6, so I agree with fringe views assessment: https://imprimis.hillsdale.edu/what-we-know-and-what-we-dont-about-january-6/


Jan 6 lol - the default talking point...as if the colleges listed as elite by leftists here haven't seen their share of violence, rioting and mayhem


So you're defending the rioters of January 6?
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Hilarious that the people who believed the border was closed by Mayorkas & Joe was running rings around his staff think they are smarter than conservatives.
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Anonymous wrote:Hilarious that the people who believed the border was closed by Mayorkas & Joe was running rings around his staff think they are smarter than conservatives.


How’s that wall coming along?

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Anonymous wrote:As a lawyer, I wouldn’t hire a Hillsdale grad even if they did well at a top law school. Why hire someone with a background that might turn off some clients?


So a kid that graduated from Harvard Law School but did their undergrad at Hillsdale would get immediately dismissed as a nutcase by you? lol

The elitism displayed by the leftists on these forums is staggering...and revolting



You’re embarrassing yourself. Why don’t you go pray on it, champ.
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I couldn’t find what poster was talking about and was curious so did done digging. This article basically defends Jan 6, so I agree with fringe views assessment: https://imprimis.hillsdale.edu/what-we-know-and-what-we-dont-about-january-6/


Jan 6 lol - the default talking point...as if the colleges listed as elite by leftists here haven't seen their share of violence, rioting and mayhem


The question isn't whether there have been campus protests. The question is whether the alumni magazines at "leftist" universities are routinely publishing defenses of attempts to disrupt the peaceful transfer of power in our democracy.
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Anonymous wrote:As a lawyer, I wouldn’t hire a Hillsdale grad even if they did well at a top law school. Why hire someone with a background that might turn off some clients?


So a kid that graduated from Harvard Law School but did their undergrad at Hillsdale would get immediately dismissed as a nutcase by you? lol

The elitism displayed by the leftists on these forums is staggering...and revolting



Avoiding nut jobs isn’t “elitism”.


Assuming someone is a "nut job" because of where they went to college is elitism. And nutty.
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Anonymous wrote:As a lawyer, I wouldn’t hire a Hillsdale grad even if they did well at a top law school. Why hire someone with a background that might turn off some clients?


So a kid that graduated from Harvard Law School but did their undergrad at Hillsdale would get immediately dismissed as a nutcase by you? lol

The elitism displayed by the leftists on these forums is staggering...and revolting






I am a hiring manager at one of those "high prestige, lower pay" type jobs that folks from elite universities often target. Here's the truth -- I would consider a resume from a woman who attended Hillsdale or even Liberty, but not a man. Often, women in fundamentalist/conservative Christian contexts are given a very short list of universities they are allowed to attend, so I would not punish a woman for attending the only education her family would allow.

However, men/boys are given more freedom in this kind of context and therefore will have chosen the reactionary option.
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