after Pomona College (0.3%, 29.7%), closest are Caltech (0.6%, 30.7%), Rice (0.6%, 32%), Swarthmore (0.6%, 33.3%), and Occidental College (0.6%, 33.7%), ending with Maple Springs Baptist Bible College and Seminary (100%, 100%).

532 out of the other 1,187 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for undergrads who are 25 years or older, e.g., Saint Joseph Seminary College.

1. Information on numbers and ages of the undergrad and graduate student body is from the file enrollment by age, gender, attendance status, and level of student: Fall 2012 (Provisional release) as reported by the National Center for Education Statistics (http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds).
   
2. The percentage of minorities (American Indians or Alaska Natives, Asians or Pacific Islanders, Blacks or African Americans, and Hispanics) among full-time students is calculated 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).
   

Pomona College 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, and enrolls from 1,000 to 4,999 students.

• USNews Liberal Arts College ranking (4th place)
• Wall St. Journal feeder school ranking (13th place)
• PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (89th place)
• research spending ($2.7M)
• endowment per full-time student ($1,071,199)
• average full-time teaching salary ($107,983)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($41,438)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($41,438)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($37,207)
• cost of a shared room ($7,876)
• average undergrad student loan ($4,433)
• research spending per student ($1,681)
• full-time retention rate (97%)
• undergrads who get financial aid (68%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (51.1%)
• in-state freshmen (34.3%)
• minorities (29.7%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (26%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (16%)
• Hispanics (13.2%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (11.9%)
• Asians (10.2%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 10.1%)
• Blacks or African Americans (6.2%)
• foreign students (5.4%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (0.3%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.1%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -9.2%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (680)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (680)
• 25th percentile SAT writing score (680)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (760)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (770)
• 75th percentile SAT writing score (780)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• average January temperature (55.6 degrees)
• dorm capacity (1,519)
• first-year applicants (7,456)
• foreign students (86)
• full-time undergrads (1,589)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (12)
• total 75th percentile SAT score (2,310)
• undergrads (1,607)
• yearly for-credit students (1,600)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (19.58)
• students per faculty member (7)
• annual rainfall (17.2 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.08)
• elevation (371 meters)

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