1. Information on majors and programs of study is from the Completions Data File, 2011-12 (Provisional release) as reported by the National Center for Education Statistics (http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds). Top majors are the ones that have the most conferred degrees. If it says "is in" rather than just "is", then various top majors were combined into a new attribute. For example, colleges whose top major is "in engineering" will include a college whose top major is chemical engineering, another whose top major is electrical engineering, and so on.
   

Williams College is in Williamstown, MA, 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, was attended by a U.S. President, requires test scores for undergrad admissions, its top major is economics, is on a four-one-four calendar, its top Masters major is development economics and international development, and enrolls from 1,000 to 4,999 students.

• USNews Liberal Arts College ranking (1st place)
• Wall St. Journal feeder school ranking (5th place)
• PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (20th place)
• Webometrics world ranking (1,092nd place)
• endowment per full-time student ($812,288)
• average full-time teaching salary ($109,356)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($44,920)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($44,920)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($39,776)
• cost of a shared room ($6,010)
• average undergrad student loan ($4,587)
• research spending ($0.0K)
• research spending per student ($0.0)
• undergrads among full-time students (97.5%)
• full-time retention rate (96%)
• undergrads who get financial aid (65%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (51%)
• grad students who are under 25 years old (35.2%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (31%)
• minorities (27.6%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 19%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (19%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (13.8%)
• in-state freshmen (13%)
• Hispanics (10.1%)
• Asians (10%)
• foreign students (8.6%)
• Blacks or African Americans (7.4%)
• disabled students (4%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (0.5%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.1%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -15.9%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (650)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (660)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (760)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (770)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (6)
• average January temperature (22.6 degrees)
• dorm capacity (1,918)
• first-year applicants (7,030)
• foreign students (194)
• full-time grad students (54)
• full-time undergrads (2,031)
• grad students (54)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (34)
• undergrads (2,070)
• yearly for-credit students (2,258)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (3.99)
• students per faculty member (7)
• annual rainfall (46.6 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.12)
• elevation (214 meters)

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