(RNS) A small Catholic college in California has the “most religious students,” according to recently released rankings from Princeton Review.

Thomas Aquinas College, a quaint Santa Paula, Calif., campus with just 350 students, knocked Brigham Young University from the top spot and edged out other mega-religious campuses such as evangelical Wheaton College in Wheaton, Ill., and Hillsdale College, in Hillsdale, Mich., which was founded by Baptists.

Rankings for the “most religious students” category were determined by a Princeton Review survey that asked college students to score the religiosity of their classmates on a five-point scale. Thomas Aquinas College scored highest out of the 371 North American schools that participated in the survey.

Anne Forsyth, Thomas Aquinas College’s director of public relations and 1981 alumna, agreed the survey results accurately illustrate the campus’s devout atmosphere.

About 90 percent of students who enter Thomas Aquinas College are Catholic, Forsyth said, and the percentage grows throughout the academic year as non-Catholics convert to Catholicism.

Forsyth also said the college, which is not a seminary and is co-ed, has an impressive history of producing Catholic leaders: In the last 40 years, 46 Thomas Aquinas graduates have entered the priesthood and, on average, 10 percent of students pursue a vocation in religious life.

It’s mandatory for all students to live in campus housing unless they’re married or have received special permission from the dean to reside off campus. Dorms are gender specific, and opposite-sex visits are prohibited.

While Thomas Aquinas College students are the most religious, they are also among the least gay friendly. The school ranked third in the “alternative lifestyles not an alternative” category.

Leading the ranks of colleges with “least religious students” are Bennington College in Bennington, Vt., Eugene Lang College in Manhattan and Reed College in Portland, Ore.