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What's exceptional about Albion College (albion) ?

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many leave; high rank

Albion College has the lowest full-time retention rate (73%) of the 102 colleges with a USNews Liberal Arts College ranking of at least 100th place.

But it's still above the median of 72% and average of 71% across all 82 United Methodist colleges. That 73% compares to an average of 90.2% across the 102 colleges.



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after Albion College (73%, 100th place), closest are Millsaps College (77%, 82nd place), Austin College (77%, 82nd place), Hampden-Sydney College (78%, 97th place), and Agnes Scott College (82%, 89th place), ending with Soka U of America (99%, 41st place).

References

  1. Student retention data are from the file total entering class, retention rates, and student-to-faculty ratio: Fall 2012 (Provisional release) as reported by the National Center for Education Statistics (http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds).
  2. The 2014 US News National Liberal Arts College Rankings is at http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-colleges.

Profile

Albion College is in Albion, MI, is private and nonprofit, is United Methodist, degree-granting, offers on-campus housing, has a Phi Beta Kappa chapter, accepts the Common Application, requires test scores for undergrad admissions, its top major is biology/biological sciences, is on the semester system, and enrolls from 1,000 to 4,999 students.

  • USNews Liberal Arts College ranking (100th place)
  • research spending ($800K)
  • endowment per full-time student ($103,909)
  • average full-time teaching salary ($60,284)
  • in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($34,194)
  • out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($34,194)
  • average grant aid to undergrads ($21,647)
  • average undergrad student loan ($8,632)
  • cost of a shared room ($4,740)
  • research spending per student ($506)
  • undergrads who get financial aid (98%)
  • in-state freshmen (88.6%)
  • full-time retention rate (73%)
  • undergrads who receive student loans (66%)
  • ratio of female full-time freshmen (45.8%)
  • undergrads who get Pell grants (29%)
  • tuition & fees increase over three years (14%)
  • minorities (8.2%)
  • disabled students (7%)
  • average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 5.5%)
  • foreign students (3.9%)
  • Blacks or African Americans (3.6%)
  • Hispanics (2.6%)
  • Asians (1.8%)
  • undergrads who are 25 years or older (0.9%)
  • American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.2%)
  • non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
  • average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -5.2%)
  • 25th percentile SAT math score (480)
  • 25th percentile SAT reading score (460)
  • 25th percentile SAT writing score (490)
  • 75th percentile SAT math score (640)
  • 75th percentile SAT reading score (620)
  • 75th percentile SAT writing score (580)
  • alumni who played in the National Football League (2)
  • dorm capacity (1,551)
  • first-year applicants (2,383)
  • foreign students (60)
  • full-time undergrads (1,353)
  • members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
  • men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
  • Rhodes Scholar alumni (2)
  • total 75th percentile SAT score (1,840)
  • undergrads (1,382)
  • yearly for-credit students (1,558)
  • on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (2.35)
  • students per faculty member (11)
  • annual rainfall (37.1 inches)
  • diversity and inclusion ratio (0.08)
  • elevation (289 meters)

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