beat out by U of Rochester (62nd place) and Johns Hopkins (79th place).

Incidentally, all 3 have a Phi Beta Kappa chapter.

beat Long Island Univ-Brooklyn Campus (103rd place), La Salle Univ (109th place), U of San Francisco (119th place), and Seton Hall (131st place), and others, ending with Mississippi Univ for Women (1,001st place).

1. Mid-career median salary rankings are from the 2014 college salary report at http://www.payscale.com/college-salary-report-2014.
   
2. 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). Top majors are the ones that have the most conferred degrees. If it says "is in" rather than just "is", then various top majors were combined into a new attribute. For example, colleges whose top major is "in engineering" will include a college whose top major is chemical engineering, another whose top major is electrical engineering, and so on.
   

Fairfield Univ is in Fairfield, CT, is private and nonprofit, is Roman Catholic, accepts the Common Application, grants doctorates, has a Phi Beta Kappa chapter, has a nursing major, has its top major in nursing, offers on-campus housing, is on the semester system, its top Masters major is business administration and management, its top Doctoral major is nursing practice, its top Associates major is liberal arts and sciences/liberal studies, and enrolls from 1,000 to 4,999 students.

• PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (92nd place)
• Webometrics world ranking (1,349th place)
• research spending ($6.3M)
• average full-time teaching salary ($89,505)
• endowment per full-time student ($52,523)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($41,690)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($41,690)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($21,633)
• average undergrad student loan ($9,478)
• cost of a shared room ($7,690)
• research spending per student ($1,085)
• full-time retention rate (87%)
• undergrads who get financial aid (83%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (60%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (58.5%)
• in-state freshmen (23.8%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 15.2%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (14%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (11.2%)
• minorities (9.4%)
• disabled students (9%)
• Hispanics (4%)
• Blacks or African Americans (3.1%)
• Asians (2.2%)
• foreign students (1.8%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.1%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -13.2%)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• average January temperature (28.6 degrees)
• dorm capacity (2,795)
• first-year applicants (8,486)
• foreign students (107)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• yearly for-credit students (5,810)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (2.47)
• students per faculty member (11)
• annual rainfall (47.7 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.10)
• elevation (35 meters)

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