beat out by Washington and Lee Univ (14th place), U of Richmond (25th place), Willamette Univ (61st place), and Lewis & Clark College (74th place).

Incidentally, all 5 enroll from 1,000 to 4,999 students.

beat all others.

1. Information on majors and programs of study is from the Completions Data File, 2011-12 (Provisional release) as reported by the National Center for Education Statistics (http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds). Sometimes Data File entries are combined into an umbrella major, e.g., a "Spanish major" is counted if there is a Data File entry for either 16.0905 (Spanish Language and Literature) or 16.0908 (Hispanic and Latin American Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics, General), but not 16.0900 (Romance Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics, General).
   
2. The 2014 US News National Liberal Arts College Rankings is at http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-colleges.
   

Whittier College is in Whittier, CA, is private and nonprofit, is in the Southern California Intercoll Ath Conf, accepts the Common Application, grants doctorates, has a law school, has its top Masters major in education, has its top major in business, offers on-campus housing, requires test scores for undergrad admissions, was attended by a U.S. President, is on a four-one-four calendar, its top Doctoral major is law, and enrolls from 1,000 to 4,999 students.

• USNews Liberal Arts College ranking (126th place)
• PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (311th place)
• research spending ($900K)
• average full-time teaching salary ($82,442)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($38,670)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($38,670)
• endowment per full-time student ($34,195)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($23,416)
• average undergrad student loan ($8,775)
• cost of a shared room ($6,108)
• research spending per student ($327)
• undergrads who get financial aid (97%)
• full-time retention rate (87%)
• in-state freshmen (76.6%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (74%)
• undergrads among full-time students (67.4%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (51.1%)
• minorities (48.1%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (34%)
• Hispanics (31.7%)
• grad students who are under 25 years old (26.2%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 14.8%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (12.9%)
• Asians (11.6%)
• Blacks or African Americans (4.1%)
• disabled students (4%)
• foreign students (3.4%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (3%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.7%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -12.9%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (478)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (460)
• 25th percentile SAT writing score (470)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (590)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (580)
• 75th percentile SAT writing score (580)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (5)
• dorm capacity (840)
• first-year applicants (4,125)
• foreign students (88)
• full-time grad students (537)
• full-time undergrads (1,554)
• grad students (772)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (4)
• total 75th percentile SAT score (1,750)
• undergrads (1,597)
• yearly for-credit students (2,604)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (4.99)
• students per faculty member (13)
• annual rainfall (14.0 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.05)
• elevation (121 meters)

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