closest is Grinnell College (44th place).

1. The Wall St. Journal published a top-50 feeder ranking by analyzing the top 15 graduate schools to see where their incoming graduate students got their undergraduate degrees, while taking into account the size of the undergraduate institution. (ref: http://www.inpathways.net/top50feeder.pdf)
   
2. Student density refers to the total number of yearly for-credit students within a 5-mile radius, using enrollment data from the 12-month Unduplicated Head Count Data File, 2011-12 (Provisional release) and latitude/longitude data from the IPEDS Directory, 2012-13 (Provisional release) by the National Center for Education Statistics (http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds).
   

Bates College is in Lewiston, ME, is private and nonprofit, is in the New England Small College Ath Conf, degree-granting, a top-100 happiest school, offers on-campus housing, has a Phi Beta Kappa chapter, accepts the Common Application, its top major is political science and government, is on a four-one-four calendar, and enrolls from 1,000 to 4,999 students.

• USNews Liberal Arts College ranking (22nd place)
• Wall St. Journal feeder school ranking (40th place)
• PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (109th place)
• research spending ($900K)
• endowment per full-time student ($123,166)
• average full-time teaching salary ($89,955)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($44,300)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($44,300)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($37,578)
• cost of typical room and board ($12,935)
• average undergrad student loan ($6,515)
• research spending per student ($471)
• full-time retention rate (95%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (53.5%)
• undergrads who get financial aid (48%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (21%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 18.4%)
• minorities (15.1%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (12%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (11.3%)
• disabled students (11%)
• in-state freshmen (9.7%)
• foreign students (5.7%)
• Hispanics (5.1%)
• Blacks or African Americans (4.9%)
• Asians (4.7%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.4%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -15.5%)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (2)
• average January temperature (17.7 degrees)
• dorm capacity (1,640)
• first-year applicants (4,906)
• foreign students (109)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (5)
• yearly for-credit students (1,900)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (6.49)
• students per faculty member (10)
• annual rainfall (45.1 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (6.0)
• elevation (73 meters)

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