beat out by Colgate (0.2%) and Barnard (0.3%).

tied with Skidmore College (0.8%).

Incidentally, all 4 are a top-100 happiest school.

beat Cornell (1.1%), Iona College (1.3%), Clarkson Univ (1.7%), and Rensselaer Polytechnic Inst. (1.9%), and others, ending with Excelsior College (93.6%).

136 out of the other 231 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for undergrads who are 25 years or older, e.g., Jewish Theological Seminary of America.

1. Information on numbers and ages of the undergrad and graduate student body is from the file enrollment by age, gender, attendance status, and level of student: Fall 2012 (Provisional release) as reported by the National Center for Education Statistics (http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds).
   
2. College geographic information is from the IPEDS Directory, 2012-13 (Provisional release) by the National Center for Education Statistics (http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds).
   

Union College is in Schenectady, NY, is private and nonprofit, degree-granting, a top-100 happiest school, offers on-campus housing, has a Phi Beta Kappa chapter, was attended by a U.S. President, its top major is economics, is on the trimester system, and enrolls from 1,000 to 4,999 students.

• USNews Liberal Arts College ranking (41st place)
• PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (64th place)
• research spending ($800K)
• endowment per full-time student ($156,997)
• average full-time teaching salary ($88,048)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($45,219)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($45,219)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($23,417)
• cost of a shared room ($6,069)
• average undergrad student loan ($5,637)
• research spending per student ($363)
• full-time retention rate (94%)
• undergrads who get financial aid (83%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (64%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (48.7%)
• in-state freshmen (34%)
• minorities (16.9%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (16%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (11.6%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 11.4%)
• disabled students (8%)
• Asians (6.2%)
• Hispanics (5.9%)
• foreign students (5.5%)
• Blacks or African Americans (4.5%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (0.8%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.3%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -10.2%)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (2)
• average January temperature (22.6 degrees)
• dorm capacity (1,974)
• first-year applicants (5,565)
• foreign students (126)
• full-time undergrads (2,209)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (1)
• undergrads (2,241)
• yearly for-credit students (2,287)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (7.58)
• students per faculty member (10)
• annual rainfall (39.4 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.09)
• elevation (77 meters)

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