Are there any conservative colleges in England?

[Anonymous]

I've always thought about attending college in England. Are there any socially conservative( preferably Christian) colleges in England? A small school would be nice.

[Anonymous]

No. Universities in England are public institutions with very few exceptions. And you won't find social conservatives a la US in the UK.

[Anonymous]

The conservatives from England were persecuted and they all fled to the New World.

[Anonymous]

Very different educational model there. First of all college typically means a professional school (cooking college for example), while university refers to the academic institutions. It's primarily very large universities which tend to be very diverse. Many have quite large international (Asian, Indian, eastern European) student populations.

You choose a course of study and apply to a specific program - no liberal arts or distribution requirements like US colleges. Great if you know exactly what you want to study but not so good if you happen to change your mind after a year.

Here's a list of universities affiliated with the Church of England. https://www.churchofengland.org/education/colleges-universities/he/anglican-foundation-heis/anglican-institutions.aspx. You will have to do your own research about whether these Unis have the reputations that make them worth attending as an international student (so at higher tuition rates).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No. Universities in England are public institutions with very few exceptions. And you won't find social conservatives a la US in the UK.

This. I think you'd be hard pressed to find a college with the kind of Bob Jones Christian identity that you seem to be looking for. The Anglican Church is pretty progressive on LGBT issues, gun control is the law of the land, the government pays for birth control, and abortion is settled law.

Better off staying in the US and applying to Liberty or Wesleyan.

[Anonymous]

The university experience is intended to open your mind, OP. Don't go looking for a conservative one, as conservative thought is inherently closed-minded and insipid.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No. Universities in England are public institutions with very few exceptions. And you won't find social conservatives a la US in the UK.

This. I think you'd be hard pressed to find a college with the kind of Bob Jones Christian identity that you seem to be looking for. The Anglican Church is pretty progressive on LGBT issues, gun control is the law of the land, the government pays for birth control, and abortion is settled law.

Better off staying in the US and applying to Liberty or Wesleyan.

Does not seem like Liberty and Wesleyan belong in the same sentence!

[Anonymous]

I'm English. I think our system is very different and I don't think there are "conservative" colleges (I assume you mean universities - to get your undergrad Bachelors degree) and certainly no Christian ones. Some of the older universities which have the college system (Oxford, Cambridge, Durham - the colleges are all part of the university but you don't apply to the university, you apply to a college and you choose the college based on many different things) may have colleges which have an ethos similar to that which you are looking for but probably not, to be honest - the most you would find (and even that is unlikely) is a college which attracts a large group of similarly-minded people. None of them would be specifically Christian or "conservative", but it may be that if you research them you'd find that lots of "conservative" people like X college. I think it's unlikely though!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No. Universities in England are public institutions with very few exceptions. And you won't find social conservatives a la US in the UK.

This. I think you'd be hard pressed to find a college with the kind of Bob Jones Christian identity that you seem to be looking for. The Anglican Church is pretty progressive on LGBT issues, gun control is the law of the land, the government pays for birth control, and abortion is settled law.

Better off staying in the US and applying to Liberty or Wesleyan.

Does not seem like Liberty and Wesleyan belong in the same sentence!

Oops. I was missing an important modifier there. Southern Wesleyan!

[Anonymous]

Guys this is just PaleoCon again.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No. Universities in England are public institutions with very few exceptions. And you won't find social conservatives a la US in the UK.

True in the religious sense, but not true in the advocacy sense -- in the UK most students focus on the "conservative" business of learning (or drinking), not on political correctness/ affirmative action/ liberal politics and such

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No. Universities in England are public institutions with very few exceptions. And you won't find social conservatives a la US in the UK.

True in the religious sense, but not true in the advocacy sense -- in the UK most students focus on the "conservative" business of learning (or drinking), not on political correctness/ affirmative action/ liberal politics and such

I take it you are not British? If you were you would know that student politics is very much obsessed with political correctness.

[Anonymous]

My dh is English and he started laughing when I read him your question. No, there are no conservative colleges OR universities in England. They are all, in fact, very, very liberal. Sorry.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Guys this is just PaleoCon again.

The poor kid is grasping at straws now. He really needs to get out more. Where are this kids parents?

[Anonymous]

I did study abroad in England in the late 80's. People would regularly knock on my door and say things like

"Hi, I'm Valerie, I'm running as the Marxist-Leninist-Stalinist-Maoist candidate for Student Activity Co-Chair, can I have your vote?" And I stand there trying to think about a Stalinist or Maoist student activity that I would care to join. Luckily, I had other choices, as the Marxist-Leninist-Trotskyist candidate was surely only 5 minutes behind. I think that Trotsky at least approved of "reading" as a student activity.
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I am very very far from a Paleo-Con. I think the OP would be horrified by my politics, and label me a socialist, but in England I felt very very conservative.