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high rank; pays profs less

Houghton College has the highest USNews Liberal Arts College ranking (141st place) of the 868 colleges with an average full-time teaching salary of at most $50,669.



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after Houghton College (141st place, $50,669), closest is Northland College (180th place, $49,499).

References

  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.

Profile

Houghton College is in Houghton, NY, is private and nonprofit, is of the Wesleyan Denomination, degree-granting, offers on-campus housing, has its top major in business, requires test scores for undergrad admissions, is on the semester system, its top Masters major is theology/theological studies, its top Associates major is liberal arts and sciences/liberal studies, and enrolls from 1,000 to 4,999 students.

  • USNews Liberal Arts College ranking (141st place)
  • PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (825th place)
  • average full-time teaching salary ($50,669)
  • endowment per full-time student ($29,115)
  • in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($26,924)
  • out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($26,924)
  • average grant aid to undergrads ($16,106)
  • average undergrad student loan ($6,694)
  • cost of a shared room ($4,172)
  • research spending per student ($17)
  • research spending ($0.0K)
  • undergrads who get financial aid (100%)
  • undergrads who receive student loans (91%)
  • full-time retention rate (88%)
  • ratio of female full-time freshmen (68.9%)
  • in-state freshmen (56.8%)
  • undergrads who get Pell grants (41%)
  • average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 14.7%)
  • disabled students (11%)
  • tuition & fees increase over three years (10.2%)
  • minorities (6.6%)
  • foreign students (5.5%)
  • Blacks or African Americans (2.4%)
  • Hispanics (2%)
  • Asians (1.2%)
  • American Indians or Alaska Natives (1%)
  • non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
  • average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -12.8%)
  • 25th percentile SAT math score (510)
  • 25th percentile SAT reading score (530)
  • 25th percentile SAT writing score (500)
  • 75th percentile SAT math score (620)
  • 75th percentile SAT reading score (640)
  • 75th percentile SAT writing score (620)
  • alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
  • dorm capacity (1,066)
  • first-year applicants (830)
  • foreign students (79)
  • members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
  • men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
  • Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
  • total 75th percentile SAT score (1,880)
  • yearly for-credit students (1,439)
  • on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (1.16)
  • students per faculty member (13)
  • annual rainfall (40.9 inches)
  • diversity and inclusion ratio (0.02)
  • elevation (421 meters)

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