beat Harvey Mudd (740), MIT (740), Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering (725), and Washington Univ in St Louis (720), and others, ending with Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College (210).

1,835 out of the other 3,121 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for 25th percentile SAT math score, e.g., Mount Mary College.

1. College SAT data is from the Institutional Characteristics Data File 2012-2013 (Provisional Release) as reported by the National Center for Education Statistics (http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds). Note that only about 41% of all colleges in this dataset reported at least one numeric SAT score.
   

Caltech is in Pasadena, CA, is private and nonprofit, research intensive, a top-100 happiest school, a member of the American Association of Universities, accepts the Common Application, has its top Masters major in engineering, has its top major in engineering, offers on-campus housing, requires test scores for undergrad admissions, is on the quarter system, its top Doctoral major is chemistry, and enrolls from 1,000 to 4,999 students.

• Times Higher Education world ranking (1st place)
• PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (3rd place)
• ARWU world ranking (6th place)
• Webometrics world ranking (27th place)
• Wall St. Journal feeder school ranking (28th place)
• research spending ($272.0M)
• endowment per full-time student ($803,681)
• average full-time teaching salary ($164,862)
• research spending per student ($117,050)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($39,588)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($39,588)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($31,445)
• cost of a shared room ($6,798)
• average undergrad student loan ($5,525)
• full-time retention rate (96%)
• undergrads who get financial aid (72%)
• undergrads among full-time students (44.4%)
• grad students who are under 25 years old (36.8%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (36.1%)
• in-state freshmen (33%)
• minorities (30.7%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (29%)
• foreign students (27.2%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 25.9%)
• Asians (22.8%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (14.5%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (11%)
• Hispanics (6.2%)
• Blacks or African Americans (1.4%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (0.6%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.3%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -20.6%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (760)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (700)
• 25th percentile SAT writing score (700)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (800)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (790)
• 75th percentile SAT writing score (790)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• average January temperature (57.8 degrees)
• dorm capacity (900)
• first-year applicants (5,225)
• foreign students (631)
• full-time grad students (1,246)
• full-time undergrads (997)
• grad students (1,246)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (71)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (6)
• total 75th percentile SAT score (2,380)
• undergrads (997)
• yearly for-credit students (2,324)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (3.87)
• students per faculty member (3)
• annual rainfall (21.2 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.15)
• elevation (238 meters)

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