after Claremont McKenna (22nd place, 1,129), closest are Caltech (28th place, 900), New College of Florida (31st place, 636), and Reed College (50th place, 947).

1. Information on dorm capacity and on-campus housing 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).
   
2. The Wall St. Journal published a top-50 feeder ranking by analyzing the top 15 graduate schools to see where their incoming graduate students got their undergraduate degrees, while taking into account the size of the undergraduate institution. (ref: http://www.inpathways.net/top50feeder.pdf)
   

Claremont McKenna is in Claremont, CA, is private and nonprofit, is in the Southern California Intercoll Ath Conf, degree-granting, a top-100 happiest school, offers on-campus housing, has a Phi Beta Kappa chapter, accepts the Common Application, requires test scores for undergrad admissions, its top major is economics, is on the semester system, its top Masters major is finance, and enrolls from 1,000 to 4,999 students.

• USNews Liberal Arts College ranking (9th place)
• Wall St. Journal feeder school ranking (22nd place)
• PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (73rd place)
• research spending ($5.9M)
• endowment per full-time student ($394,680)
• average full-time teaching salary ($107,977)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($44,085)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($44,085)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($34,023)
• average undergrad student loan ($9,652)
• cost of a shared room ($7,380)
• research spending per student ($4,387)
• undergrads among full-time students (97.6%)
• full-time retention rate (95%)
• grad students who are under 25 years old (77.4%)
• undergrads who get financial aid (49%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (46.7%)
• in-state freshmen (40.9%)
• minorities (23.1%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 19.3%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (17%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (14.5%)
• Asians (11.7%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (10%)
• foreign students (9.3%)
• Hispanics (8.1%)
• Blacks or African Americans (3.2%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (0.4%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.1%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -16.2%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (660)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (650)
• 25th percentile SAT writing score (660)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (760)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (750)
• 75th percentile SAT writing score (740)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• average January temperature (55.6 degrees)
• dorm capacity (1,129)
• first-year applicants (5,058)
• foreign students (124)
• full-time grad students (31)
• full-time undergrads (1,260)
• grad students (31)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (2)
• total 75th percentile SAT score (2,250)
• undergrads (1,264)
• yearly for-credit students (1,339)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (19.42)
• students per faculty member (8)
• annual rainfall (17.2 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.10)
• elevation (371 meters)

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