The wokeness at univerisities is exaggerated. Most students are not political and most professors are mainly interested in their research and not what some student said. If 30 SJWs are protesting at a campus there are 29970 students not protesting. Unless you are unlucky, at a really woke university or actively being provocative you probably won't have any problems. Avoid Communications, HR, genderstudies and other subjects that are minfields.

You average chemist, biologist, programmer, engineer or agricultural scientist is a fairly normal sensible person. If anything the quality of the people is usually fairly good assuming a reasonably good school.

If you think academic studies suites you, you have a good job in mind, the subject isn't too woke and your debt won't be too extreme then go for it. Right wingers shouldn't drop out of society. Leftists never thought a place was too right wing for them to participate, they join things and subvert. If right wingers are going to drop out of everything that isn't based we are going to have to abandon almost all of society and lose influence.