beat Holy Cross (0.3%), Williams College (0.5%), Brandeis (0.6%), and MIT (0.8%), and others, ending with National Graduate School of Quality Management (98.8%).

59 out of the other 101 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for undergrads who are 25 years or older, e.g., Hult International Business School.

1. Information on numbers and ages of the undergrad and graduate student body is from the file enrollment by age, gender, attendance status, and level of student: Fall 2012 (Provisional release) as reported by the National Center for Education Statistics (http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds).
   
2. College geographic information is from the IPEDS Directory, 2012-13 (Provisional release) by the National Center for Education Statistics (http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds).
   

Wheaton College is in Norton, MA, is private and nonprofit, degree-granting, offers on-campus housing, has a Phi Beta Kappa chapter, its top major is psychology, is on the semester system, and enrolls from 1,000 to 4,999 students.

• USNews Liberal Arts College ranking (65th place)
• PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (247th place)
• endowment per full-time student ($96,716)
• average full-time teaching salary ($78,329)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($43,774)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($43,774)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($26,491)
• average undergrad student loan ($6,504)
• cost of a shared room ($5,960)
• research spending ($0.0K)
• research spending per student ($0.0)
• full-time retention rate (86%)
• undergrads who get financial aid (83%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (63.6%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (60%)
• in-state freshmen (28.1%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (28%)
• minorities (15.1%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 11.7%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (9.8%)
• foreign students (7.6%)
• Hispanics (7.1%)
• Blacks or African Americans (5.5%)
• disabled students (4%)
• Asians (2.3%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (0.2%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.2%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -10.5%)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• average January temperature (26.5 degrees)
• dorm capacity (1,525)
• first-year applicants (3,448)
• foreign students (126)
• full-time undergrads (1,613)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (3)
• undergrads (1,616)
• yearly for-credit students (1,649)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (6.06)
• students per faculty member (11)
• annual rainfall (51.3 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.05)
• elevation (32 meters)

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