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Reply 1
Hmm... the only ones I can guess at are SOAS etc really.

I could give you a basic breakdown of the ancient Scottish Unis though: St Andrews & Dundee are pretty much right wing, Aberdeen & Glasgow are mixed, Edinburgh is a bit leftie. Also Stirling was once considered very leftie.
Reply 2
Sussex is known for its protests and radical ideas
Reply 3
a huge chunk of academia is left (if we can use that polemic). without lefty politics a hefty amount of academia wouldnt exist. think of all those subjects that rely critical discourses such as marxism & feminism
Reply 4
Exeter is a bit 'green welly' - the Conservative Future soc is bigger than probably all of the other political societies combined.

Having said that, though, when we were asked to vote on whether or not Respect should be allowed to have a student branch here, it was split pretty much 50/50.
St Andrews definitely had a right-wing student population whilst I was a student (not because of me though!). However, it also had some of the most overtly leftist academics I've seen as well.
Reply 6
vickytoria77
Sussex is known for its protests and radical ideas

yeh i was gonna say Sussex is a political hotbed, their always ranting and raving about stuff.
Reply 7
I've heard that Warwick is meant to be somewhat left-wing.
Liverpool are relatively left and many of the newly elected student council people are left-wing at Manchester also
Reply 9
Lib North
Hmm... the only ones I can guess at are SOAS etc really.

I could give you a basic breakdown of the ancient Scottish Unis though: St Andrews & Dundee are pretty much right wing, Aberdeen & Glasgow are mixed, Edinburgh is a bit leftie. Also Stirling was once considered very leftie.


I was having a chat with my bf about this the other day and he mentioned Glasgow as the Scottish equivalent of Sussex :biggrin:
Stirling certainly used to be very leftie - my grandma wouldn't let my mum go to such an anarchic place apparently :biggrin:
Would have said Edinburgh wasn't really leftie place though

Sussex is the one I've heard of being traditionally leftie
LSE and Bristol for right wing, or is it just me that's heard that?
this is really bizzare, how are people defining right wing here? are we talking fascism?
Reply 11
Not facisim but certainly a conservatism I would guess.
"it's not you it's the E talking" - what a cracking tune.
LSE is not conservative. In most departments (bar Economics, Accounting+Finance, etc.), the students and the staff are moderate to left-wing. I had a Marxist teaching my Development Studies lecture.
Reply 14
NDGAARONDI
Which universities do you think are the mosr left-wing or right-wing?

I've heard that the students at SOAS are pretty left-wing, but have no evidence myself to back that up.

There seems to be a fair mix here at Oxford, perhaps slightly more right-wing that other universities, but its hard to gauge really.
Liverpool is pretty left-wing. We literally have lectures on the history of the Labour Party! The Labour Society is the only really mainstream political society, i dont remember seeing a Conservative or Lib Dem one. On a whole the election stuff has been Lib Dem that has been circulating the accomodation, but all it focus' on is the faults of the Green's and the tution fee issue. But i would say on a whole its reasonably left wing from what ive experienced!
Reply 16
shady lane
I had a Marxist teaching my Development Studies lecture.


Calm down dear, one commie does not a revolution make :wink:
Reply 17
shady lane
LSE is not conservative. In most departments (bar Economics, Accounting+Finance, etc.), the students and the staff are moderate to left-wing. I had a Marxist teaching my Development Studies lecture.


Yep. It's only the business professors/students who tend to be liberal. The rest of the professors and students are left of center. I know there's only one right-wing professor in the entire IR department (Coker, God bless his soul).
Reply 18
Well Keele, when it was first established and up intill the 1980's when Thatcher heavily cut back on University grants was nicknamed the "Kremlin on the Hill" obviously in relation to how left wing it used to be. Neverthless in todays environment where students are not as politically active, university political profiles have become very much disminished and instead become very much more buisness orientated. Shame really.
Reply 19
At Keele, The conservative futures society is the largest of the political societies (I'm told).