bested Trinity College ($45,730), Wesleyan Univ ($45,628), and Union College ($45,219).

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

surpassed Dickinson College ($44,551), Rensselaer Polytechnic Inst. ($44,475), Franklin and Marshall College ($44,360), and Bates College ($44,300), and others, ending with Haskell Indian Nations Univ ($182).

96 out of the other 812 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees, e.g., High Point Univ.

1. Whether a college is rural, suburban, or in a town, city, or big city, is from the IPEDS Directory, 2012-13 (Provisional release) by the National Center for Education Statistics (http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds).
   
2. Tuition and fees are from the Institutional Characteristics Data File 2012-2013 (Provisional Release) as reported by the National Center for Education Statistics (http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds).
   

Connecticut College is in New London, CT, is private and nonprofit, degree-granting, a top-100 happiest school, offers on-campus housing, has a Phi Beta Kappa chapter, accepts the Common Application, its top major is economics, is on the semester system, its top Masters major is psychology, and enrolls from 1,000 to 4,999 students.

• USNews Liberal Arts College ranking (45th place)
• PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (490th place)
• research spending ($1.8M)
• endowment per full-time student ($101,564)
• average full-time teaching salary ($83,960)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($44,890)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($44,890)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($32,025)
• average undergrad student loan ($7,526)
• cost of a shared room ($6,850)
• research spending per student ($875)
• undergrads among full-time students (99.6%)
• full-time retention rate (92%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (60.5%)
• undergrads who get financial aid (56%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (44%)
• grad students who are under 25 years old (42.9%)
• in-state freshmen (16.5%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (16%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 15.3%)
• minorities (12.7%)
• disabled students (9%)
• Hispanics (6.5%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (6%)
• foreign students (4.5%)
• Blacks or African Americans (3.4%)
• Asians (2.8%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (1%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -13.2%)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• average January temperature (30.5 degrees)
• dorm capacity (1,807)
• first-year applicants (5,242)
• foreign students (95)
• full-time grad students (4)
• full-time undergrads (1,884)
• grad students (7)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• undergrads (1,926)
• yearly for-credit students (2,108)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (2.06)
• students per faculty member (9)
• annual rainfall (49.7 inches)
• elevation (57 meters)

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