closest are Wofford College (6, 26), Virginia Military Inst. (9, 28), Centre College (8, 35), and Sewanee-U of the South (26, 41), ending with U of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (9, 8,956).

1. The number of foreign students is from the 12-month Unduplicated Head Count Data File, 2011-12 (Provisional release) as reported by the National Center for Education Statistics (http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds).
   
2. The list of Rhodes Scholars by institution was determined in Feb 2014, covering all winners through 2013, from http://www.rhodesscholar.org.
   

Birmingham Southern College is in Birmingham, AL, is private and nonprofit, is United Methodist, degree-granting, accepts the Common Application, has a Phi Beta Kappa chapter, has its top major in business, offers on-campus housing, requires test scores for undergrad admissions, is on a four-one-four calendar, and enrolls from 1,000 to 4,999 students.

• USNews Liberal Arts College ranking (115th place)
• PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (360th place)
• average full-time teaching salary ($64,073)
• endowment per full-time student ($38,220)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($30,690)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($30,690)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($18,093)
• average undergrad student loan ($8,884)
• cost of a shared room ($7,114)
• research spending ($0.0K)
• research spending per student ($0.0)
• undergrads who get financial aid (99%)
• full-time retention rate (81%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (55%)
• in-state freshmen (53.5%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (41.3%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (23%)
• minorities (15.1%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (14.7%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 9.4%)
• Blacks or African Americans (7.5%)
• Asians (4.4%)
• Hispanics (2.5%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (1.5%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.7%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• foreign students (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -8.6%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (510)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (500)
• 25th percentile SAT writing score (490)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (610)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (610)
• 75th percentile SAT writing score (580)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (3)
• average January temperature (43.8 degrees)
• dorm capacity (1,597)
• first-year applicants (1,846)
• foreign students (0)
• full-time undergrads (1,208)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (6)
• total 75th percentile SAT score (1,800)
• undergrads (1,231)
• yearly for-credit students (1,354)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (0.7)
• students per faculty member (13)
• annual rainfall (53.7 inches)
• elevation (179 meters)

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