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In addition to ranking No. 1 for "most conservative" students, Thomas Aquinas College's students ranked No. 5 for "most religious" and "happiest" in the entire country. | Credit: Courtesy of Thomas Aquinas College/YouTube

By Kate Quiñones, Catholic News Agency, Aug. 30, 2024

Kate Quiñones is a staff writer for Catholic News Agency and a fellow of the College Fix. She has been published by the Wall Street Journal, the Denver Catholic Register, and CatholicVote, and she graduated from Hillsdale College. She lives in Colorado with her husband.

The Princeton Review selects 390 top colleges each year and then ranks them according to different categories based on student responses to surveys.

According to student responses, Thomas Aquinas College (TAC), a small Catholic liberal arts college in southern California, ranked No. 1 in “most conservative students.” Other Catholic schools that ranked in the same category included University of Dallas (UD) at No. 6 and Assumption University, an Augustinian liberal arts school in Massachusetts, which ranked No. 20. …