Wheaton College is first with 57th place.

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

beat Knox College (82nd place), Augustana College (100th place), Principia College (107th place), and Lake Forest College (110th place), and others, ending with Monmouth College (165th place).

1. College geographic information is from the IPEDS Directory, 2012-13 (Provisional release) by the National Center for Education Statistics (http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds).
   
2. The 2014 US News National Liberal Arts College Rankings is at http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-colleges.
   

Illinois Wesleyan Univ is in Bloomington, IL, is private and nonprofit, is in the College Conference of Illinois and Wisc, degree-granting, accepts the Common Application, has a Phi Beta Kappa chapter, has a nursing major, has its top major in business, offers on-campus housing, requires test scores for undergrad admissions, is on a four-one-four calendar, and enrolls from 1,000 to 4,999 students.

• USNews Liberal Arts College ranking (65th place)
• PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (442nd place)
• research spending ($200K)
• endowment per full-time student ($101,173)
• average full-time teaching salary ($70,359)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($37,954)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($37,954)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($18,294)
• average undergrad student loan ($7,976)
• cost of a shared room ($5,584)
• research spending per student ($98)
• undergrads who get financial aid (99%)
• full-time retention rate (89%)
• in-state freshmen (84.9%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (63%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (59.8%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (18%)
• minorities (14.2%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 11.8%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (11.7%)
• Asians (4.8%)
• Hispanics (4.5%)
• Blacks or African Americans (4.4%)
• foreign students (4.3%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.5%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (0.3%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -10.5%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (570)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (540)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (700)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (650)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (8)
• dorm capacity (1,650)
• first-year applicants (3,297)
• foreign students (91)
• full-time undergrads (2,008)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (2)
• undergrads (2,013)
• yearly for-credit students (2,105)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (2.22)
• students per faculty member (11)
• annual rainfall (39.6 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.27)
• elevation (247 meters)

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