after Earlham College ($26,796, $62,445), closest are Elmira College ($26,633, $51,260), Wells College ($26,452, $61,784), Maryville College ($25,324, $59,455), and Erskine College ($24,681, $53,346), ending with Cleveland Chiropractic College ($700, $49,411).

165 out of the other 1,691 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for average grant aid to undergrads, e.g., Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture.

1. Teaching salaries for men and women are from the Salary Outlays for Full-time Instructional Staff by Contract Length, Gender, and Academic Rank: 2011-12 (Final/revised release) by the National Center for Education Statistics (http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds).
   
2. The data on undergrad loans, financial aid, and Pell grants are from the Student Financial Aid Data File, 2011-12 (Provisional release) as reported by the National Center for Education Statistics (http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds).
   

Earlham College is in Richmond, IN, is private and nonprofit, is in the Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference, is Quaker, degree-granting, accepts the Common Application, has a Phi Beta Kappa chapter, has its top Masters major in education, offers on-campus housing, its top major is psychology and biology/biological sciences, is on the semester system, and enrolls from 1,000 to 4,999 students.

• USNews Liberal Arts College ranking (65th place)
• endowment per full-time student ($309,194)
• research spending ($300K)
• average full-time teaching salary ($62,445)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($40,020)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($40,020)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($26,796)
• average undergrad student loan ($6,893)
• cost of a shared room ($3,990)
• research spending per student ($269)
• undergrads who get financial aid (94%)
• undergrads among full-time students (90.9%)
• full-time retention rate (83%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (59%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (56.9%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (27%)
• grad students who are under 25 years old (25.7%)
• in-state freshmen (19.6%)
• foreign students (15.8%)
• minorities (15.4%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (13.8%)
• disabled students (10%)
• Blacks or African Americans (7.6%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 6.2%)
• Hispanics (4.5%)
• Asians (2.4%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.9%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (0.6%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -5.8%)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (1)
• average January temperature (27.3 degrees)
• dorm capacity (1,001)
• first-year applicants (1,408)
• foreign students (201)
• full-time grad students (75)
• full-time undergrads (1,071)
• grad students (109)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (2)
• undergrads (1,087)
• yearly for-credit students (1,270)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (5.51)
• students per faculty member (10)
• annual rainfall (40.7 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.10)
• elevation (289 meters)

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