beat out by Manhattan College (24th place) and Worcester Polytechnic Inst. (33rd place).

Incidentally, all 3 are an NCAA member.

beat Embry-Riddle Aeronautical Univ-Prescott (41st place), Loyola of Maryland (52nd place), Cal Poly-San Luis Obispo (58th place), and Wagner College (59th place), and others, ending with Shaw Univ (1,017th place).

1. Mid-career median salary rankings are from the 2014 college salary report at http://www.payscale.com/college-salary-report-2014.
   
2. Whether a college requires test scores (SAT or ACT) for undergraduate admission is from the Institutional Characteristics Data File 2012-2013 (Provisional Release) as reported by the National Center for Education Statistics (http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds).
   

Holy Cross is in Worcester, MA, is private and nonprofit, is Roman Catholic, degree-granting, a top-100 happiest school, accepts the Common Application, has a Phi Beta Kappa chapter, has had a Final Four men's basketball team, offers on-campus housing, its top major is economics, is on the semester system, and enrolls from 1,000 to 4,999 students.

• USNews Liberal Arts College ranking (25th place)
• PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (36th place)
• research spending ($2.4M)
• endowment per full-time student ($188,304)
• average full-time teaching salary ($85,770)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($43,400)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($43,400)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($31,034)
• average undergrad student loan ($8,347)
• cost of a shared room ($6,330)
• research spending per student ($809)
• full-time retention rate (95%)
• undergrads who get financial aid (73%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (56%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (49.3%)
• in-state freshmen (32.4%)
• minorities (19.3%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (18%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (12.1%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 10.5%)
• Hispanics (8.8%)
• Asians (5.5%)
• Blacks or African Americans (4.7%)
• disabled students (4%)
• foreign students (1.1%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (0.3%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.3%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -9.5%)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (73)
• average January temperature (24.1 degrees)
• dorm capacity (2,503)
• first-year applicants (7,228)
• foreign students (33)
• full-time undergrads (2,891)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (2)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (5)
• undergrads (2,926)
• yearly for-credit students (2,907)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (4.01)
• students per faculty member (10)
• annual rainfall (48.1 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.10)
• elevation (157 meters)

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