beat Grinnell College (17th place), Macalester College (24th place), St Olaf College (52nd place), and DePauw Univ (54th place), and others, ending with Northland College (180th place).

1. The 2014 US News National Liberal Arts College Rankings is at http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-colleges.
   
2. Distance calculations between two colleges use a mathematical formula for the distance on a sphere between two points.
   

Carleton College is in Northfield, MN, is private and nonprofit, is in the Midwest Conference, degree-granting, a top-100 happiest school, offers on-campus housing, has a Phi Beta Kappa chapter, accepts the Common Application, requires test scores for undergrad admissions, its top major is psychology, is on the trimester system, and enrolls from 1,000 to 4,999 students.

• USNews Liberal Arts College ranking (7th place)
• PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (33rd place)
• Webometrics world ranking (1,082nd place)
• endowment per full-time student ($329,080)
• average full-time teaching salary ($90,407)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($44,445)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($44,445)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($26,419)
• cost of a shared room ($6,069)
• average undergrad student loan ($4,815)
• research spending ($0.0K)
• research spending per student ($0.0)
• full-time retention rate (98%)
• undergrads who get financial aid (79%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (53%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (45%)
• in-state freshmen (18.8%)
• minorities (16.8%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (14%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (11.7%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 9.9%)
• foreign students (8.1%)
• Asians (7.1%)
• Hispanics (6.1%)
• disabled students (5%)
• Blacks or African Americans (3.5%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (0.2%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.1%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -9%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (670)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (670)
• 25th percentile SAT writing score (660)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (760)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (760)
• 75th percentile SAT writing score (750)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (3)
• average January temperature (13.8 degrees)
• dorm capacity (1,806)
• first-year applicants (5,856)
• foreign students (166)
• full-time undergrads (2,037)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (18)
• total 75th percentile SAT score (2,270)
• undergrads (2,055)
• yearly for-credit students (2,047)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (6.03)
• students per faculty member (9)
• annual rainfall (32.6 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.08)
• elevation (287 meters)

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