beat Caltech (3rd place), Stevens Inst. of Technology (3rd place), Babson (5th place), and Princeton (6th place), and others, ending with Shaw Univ (1,017th place).

1. Mid-career median salary rankings are from the 2014 college salary report at http://www.payscale.com/college-salary-report-2014.
   

Harvey Mudd 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, accepts the Common Application, has its top major in engineering, requires test scores for undergrad admissions, is on the semester system, and enrolls fewer than 1,000 students.

• PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (1st place)
• USNews Liberal Arts College ranking (16th place)
• research spending ($2.7M)
• endowment per full-time student ($288,006)
• average full-time teaching salary ($107,128)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($44,442)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($44,442)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($27,763)
• cost of a shared room ($7,763)
• average undergrad student loan ($6,678)
• research spending per student ($3,386)
• full-time retention rate (98%)
• undergrads who get financial aid (76%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (47.5%)
• in-state freshmen (42.9%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (41%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 32.2%)
• minorities (28.8%)
• Asians (20.5%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (15.5%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (13%)
• foreign students (7.3%)
• Hispanics (6.4%)
• Blacks or African Americans (1.3%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.6%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -24.3%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (740)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (680)
• 25th percentile SAT writing score (680)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (800)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (770)
• 75th percentile SAT writing score (760)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• average January temperature (55.6 degrees)
• dorm capacity (779)
• first-year applicants (3,336)
• foreign students (57)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (2)
• total 75th percentile SAT score (2,330)
• yearly for-credit students (785)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (14.86)
• students per faculty member (8)
• annual rainfall (17.2 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.07)
• elevation (406 meters)

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