I think it still depends on where you go to school.
At my community college and main university, it’s liberals. Doesn’t much matter what your major is. I did SEEM to have more conservative professors at the univ than CC (damn liberal physics guy still working here at CC), but the students - I could count on my hand how many engineering/science co-students were conservative.
This is all near my home which is confoundedly liberal. I’m native but surrounded by interlopers from DC.
This female was usually outnumbered in more ways than 1. Hated it. Still hate it working in college and living here.
I went to school in Utah (not BYU), there’s a lot more conservatives here. It’s no surprise that I didn’t date much, didn’t get married until age 35, and didn’t have a kid until I was 37 (wife was 41).
First, I was an engineering major and working half-time. That’s a huge commitment. I was so busy that on Friday and Saturday nights, I didn’t want to go out and party, I just wanted to stay home and zone out. A doctor in residency has nothing on an engineering major as far as number of hours worked.
Second, I started college at age 25 after doing an enlistment in the Navy. I was a cracked old man to them. The girls were plenty cute but mentally, nothing lined up. In their heads, they were still kids. A person who successfully got through the Navy’s Nuclear Power training pipeline, has been to a dozen countries, deployed, and served in the Persian Gulf War has nothing in common with a little be-bop queen who’s biggest worry is what kind of car daddy is going to buy her.
Third, there’s only two kind of girls that went to that school. You’ve got the liberal treehugger partiers and the mormon girls. Not wanting to hang out with liberal treehuggers is obvious. No mormon chick is going to even look in the direction of a guy that hasn’t been on a mission. I’m not trying to crack mormons but I wasn’t interested in becoming one, so the girls didn’t even look in my direction (which is fine) and 98% of the guys are arrogant asses. Nothing there for me. With that in mind, I’m sure it’s no surprise that I hung by myself 98% of the time. The religious discrimination was a significant challenge but there’s no way I was going to let them run me off. I stayed like a bad head-cold that you just can’t shake and graduated in a major that had an attrition rate of about 80%. It was a lot like Navy nuke school.