Wisconsin and Michigan should be flipped, Ohio State should be more liberal then Indiana and Michigan State should be more liberal then Illinois.
I relied fairly heavily on online opinions by college sites. Just interested - why do you think MSU is more liberal than Illinois? I go to U of I and I'm interested to know what other people think of our politics.
You're more of an engineering school than we are; engineers are less likely to be political and more likely to be libertarians if they are political.
You are right that UIUC is not very political. A lot of people that I know keep it to themselves. That said, I feel like people assume that UIUC is more conservative just because they immediately think of how it is in a rural area. I think that if you judged simply by public opinion and not necessarily how vocal people are, you would find UIUC to be one of the more liberal schools in the conference, if not right around the big pack labeled as simply "liberal."
One issue I have noticed that the school is especially liberal on is gay marriage. I realize most schools are liberal on this issue, but when the whole SCOTUS thing was going on I was a little shocked by how vocal people who were not very political became. Then I saw this map done by Facebook to gauge support for gay marriage by county and noticed that Champaign County is noticeably dark, with the only darker Big Ten counties being Dane County (UW) and Ann Arbor (UMich), and those are helped by extremely liberal areas that surround those schools.
http://www.theblaze.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Facebook-map-620x362.jpeg So in sum, I think UIUC is way more liberal than people often give it credit for, especially on social issues.
