beat Illinois Wesleyan Univ (65th place), Knox College (82nd place), Augustana College (100th place), and Principia College (107th 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.
   

Wheaton College is in Wheaton, IL, is private and nonprofit, is in the College Conference of Illinois and Wisc, is religiously affiliated but nondenominational, grants doctorates, has a nursing major, offers on-campus housing, accepts the Common Application, requires test scores for undergrad admissions, its top major is speech communication and rhetoric, is on the semester system, its top Masters major is theology/theological studies, its top Doctoral major is clinical psychology, and enrolls from 1,000 to 4,999 students.

• USNews Liberal Arts College ranking (57th place)
• PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (210th place)
• research spending ($500K)
• endowment per full-time student ($104,134)
• average full-time teaching salary ($75,491)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($30,120)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($30,120)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($15,373)
• average undergrad student loan ($7,250)
• cost of a shared room ($5,050)
• research spending per student ($137)
• full-time retention rate (95%)
• undergrads among full-time students (82.7%)
• undergrads who get financial aid (78%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (53%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (52%)
• grad students who are under 25 years old (38%)
• in-state freshmen (20.7%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (20%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 16.6%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (13.6%)
• minorities (13.1%)
• Asians (6.9%)
• foreign students (3.4%)
• Hispanics (3.2%)
• Blacks or African Americans (2.8%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (1%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.2%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -14.2%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (610)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (600)
• 25th percentile SAT writing score (600)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (700)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (720)
• 75th percentile SAT writing score (710)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (3)
• dorm capacity (2,156)
• first-year applicants (1,959)
• foreign students (114)
• full-time grad students (269)
• full-time undergrads (2,435)
• grad students (526)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• total 75th percentile SAT score (2,130)
• undergrads (2,508)
• yearly for-credit students (3,357)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (1.29)
• students per faculty member (12)
• annual rainfall (38.8 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.06)
• elevation (237 meters)

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