University of Dallas is one of least gay-friendly schools in America

by Guide Live Group

Take the rankings with a grain of salt, because answers are based on one question posed to 122,000 students at the 377 colleges and universities surveyed.

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Students walk toward the Braniff Tower on the University of Dallas campus.

IRVING — The Princeton Review’s annual lists of most and least gay-friendly universities is out, and Texas is, sadly, well-represented on the “least LGBT friendly” list. (Subscription is required to view the list.) The good news first: SMU dropped out of the top 20, following a No. 12 ranking last year.

But three other Texas schools made the top 20 for LGBT unfriendliness: Texas A&M at No. 7, the highest rank for the five public institutions on the list; Baylor at No. 10; and the University of Dallas at No. 15. (Not too surprising for Baylor and UD, of course, being religious institutions.)

These rankings (and dozens more) are in the Princeton Review’s just-released book, The Best 377 Colleges: 2013 Edition. But take the LGBT rankings with a grain of salt, because according to the Princeton Review, they are based on one question posed to 122,000 students at the 377 colleges and universities surveyed. On a scale of 1 to 5, students were asked to rate the level of their agreement/disagreement with the statement: “Students, faculty, and administrators at my school treat all persons equally regardless of their sexual orientation and gender identity/expression.”

Hat tip: We saw this story first on Dallas Voice.

PRINCETON REVIEW’S TOP 20: LGBT-UNFRIENDLY

1. Grove City College (Grove City, Pa.)

2. Hampden-Sydney College (Hampden-Sydney, Va.)

3. College of the Ozarks (Point Lookout, Mo.)

4. Wheaton College (Wheaton, Ill.)

5. University of Notre Dame (South Bend, Ind.)

6. Catholic University of America (Washington, D.C.)

7. Texas A&M (College Station)

8. Wake Forest (Winston-Salem, N.C.)

9. University of Rhode Island (Kingston, Rhode Island)

10. Baylor University (Waco)

11. Calvin College (Grand Rapids, Mich.)

12. Brigham Young University (Provo, Utah)

13. Boston College (Chestnut Hill, Mass.)

14. Thomas Aquinas College (Santa Paula, Calif.)

15. University of Dallas (Irving)

16. University of Tennessee (Knoxville)

17. Indiana University of Pennsylvania (Indiana, Pa.)

18. Hillsdale College (Hillsdale, Mich.)

19. Pepperdine University (Malibu, Calif.)

20. University of Wyoming (Laramie, Wyo.)

PRINCETON REVIEW’S TOP 20: LGBT-FRIENDLY

1. Emerson College (Boston)

2. University of Wisconsin (Madison, Wis.)

3. Stanford University (Stanford, Calif.)

4. Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering (Needham, Mass.)

5. New York University (New York City)

6. New College of Florida (Sarasota)

7. Bennington College (Bennington, Vt.)

8. Warren Wilson College (Asheville, N.C.)

9. College of the Atlantic (Bar Harbor, Maine)

10. Wellesley College (Wellesley, Mass.)

11. Smith College (Northampton, Mass.)

12. Whitman College (Walla Walla, Wash.)

13. Macalester College (St. Paul, Minn.)

14. Bryn Mawr College (Bryn Mawr, Pa.)

15. Brandeis University (Waltham, Mass.)

16. Sarah Lawrence College (Bronxville, N.Y.)

17. Pitzer College (Claremont, Calif.)

18. Prescott College (Prescott, Ariz.)

19. Grinnell College (Grinnell, Iowa)

20. Oberlin College (Oberlin, Ohio)

Posted by Amanda Wilkins