nearest others are Union Inst. & Univ, Duquesne, U of North Carolina at Asheville, and St John's College.

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. 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.
   

Lake Forest College is in Lake Forest, IL, is private and nonprofit, is in the Midwest Conference, degree-granting, offers on-campus housing, has a Phi Beta Kappa chapter, accepts the Common Application, its top major is speech communication and rhetoric, is on the semester system, its top Masters major is liberal arts and sciences/liberal studies, and enrolls from 1,000 to 4,999 students.

• USNews Liberal Arts College ranking (110th place)
• research spending ($500K)
• average full-time teaching salary ($70,973)
• endowment per full-time student ($44,775)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($38,300)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($38,300)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($24,458)
• average undergrad student loan ($6,815)
• cost of a shared room ($4,440)
• research spending per student ($298)
• undergrads among full-time students (98.9%)
• undergrads who get financial aid (96%)
• full-time retention rate (83%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (62%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (58.2%)
• in-state freshmen (45.7%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (33%)
• minorities (21%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 14.9%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (12%)
• foreign students (11.8%)
• Hispanics (11.3%)
• Blacks or African Americans (6%)
• Asians (3.5%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (2%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.2%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -12.9%)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (4)
• average January temperature (22.5 degrees)
• dorm capacity (1,100)
• first-year applicants (3,479)
• foreign students (190)
• full-time grad students (4)
• full-time undergrads (1,534)
• grad students (18)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• undergrads (1,552)
• yearly for-credit students (1,611)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (3.93)
• students per faculty member (12)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.08)
• elevation (204 meters)

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