Baptist-affiliated Samford University in Birmingham ranked No. 6 on the list of the most religious campuses in the Princeton Review’s annual ranking of “The Best 373 Colleges in the United States.”
Affiliated with the Alabama Baptist State Convention, Samford was the highest-ranking Baptist school among the top 20 campuses having the most religious students.
Baylor University, affiliated with the Baptist General Convention of Texas, ranked 10th followed by Furman University, a private liberal-arts school that severed formal ties with the South Carolina Baptist Convention in 1992, at No. 11. William Jewell College, which receives support from the Baptist General Convention of Missouri, came in at No. 19.
All of the 20 most religious campuses are private schools except one. The United States Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colo., ranked 14th.
The religiosity ranking is one of 62 categories included in the annual report. Editors selected 373 institutions based on their high opinion of their academics and surveyed more than 122,000 students about their impressions of the schools.
Samford also ranked near the bottom in use of hard liquor and marijuana. Both Samford and Baylor were among the 20 least-friendly campuses toward gays and lesbians. (ABP)
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