after Gustavus Adolphus College (76th place, $59,523), closest are Westminster College (115th place, $58,514), Ripon College (120th place, $55,132), Central College (134th place, $58,042), and Saint Norbert College (134th place, $56,867), ending with Northland College (180th place, $49,499).

1. Teaching salaries for men and women are from the Salary Outlays for Full-time Instructional Staff by Contract Length, Gender, and Academic Rank: 2011-12 (Final/revised release) 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.
   

Gustavus Adolphus College is in Saint Peter, MN, is private and nonprofit, is in the Minnesota Intercollegiate Ath Conf, is of the Evangelical Lutheran Church, degree-granting, a top-100 party school, accepts the Common Application, has a Phi Beta Kappa chapter, has a nursing major, offers on-campus housing, its top major is biology/biological sciences, is on a four-one-four calendar, and enrolls from 1,000 to 4,999 students.

• USNews Liberal Arts College ranking (76th place)
• PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (450th place)
• research spending ($100K)
• average full-time teaching salary ($59,523)
• endowment per full-time student ($42,204)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($37,660)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($37,660)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($23,066)
• average undergrad student loan ($8,319)
• cost of a shared room ($5,710)
• research spending per student ($32)
• undergrads who get financial aid (99%)
• full-time retention rate (90%)
• in-state freshmen (76.4%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (70%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (56.6%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (27%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (18.6%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 13.5%)
• minorities (11%)
• Asians (5%)
• Blacks or African Americans (3%)
• Hispanics (2.6%)
• foreign students (2.3%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.4%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (0.3%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -11.9%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (570)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (570)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (670)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (700)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (8)
• average January temperature (14.6 degrees)
• dorm capacity (2,032)
• first-year applicants (4,881)
• foreign students (57)
• full-time undergrads (2,484)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (1)
• undergrads (2,526)
• yearly for-credit students (2,530)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (2.77)
• students per faculty member (12)
• annual rainfall (31.3 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.08)
• elevation (261 meters)

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