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What's exceptional about Davidson College (davidson) ?

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high rank; in its region

Davidson College has the highest USNews Liberal Arts College ranking (9th place) of all the 751 Southeast colleges.



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beat Washington and Lee Univ (14th place), U of Richmond (25th place), Sewanee-U of the South (38th place), and Centre College (49th place), and others, ending with Eastern Mennonite Univ (180th place).

References

  1. The regions of the country are divided into New England, Mid Atlantic, Southeast, Southwest, Far West, Rocky Mountains, Great Lakes, Plains, and Outlying Areas.
  2. The 2014 US News National Liberal Arts College Rankings is at http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-colleges.

Profile

Davidson College is in Davidson, NC, is private and nonprofit, is in the Pioneer Football League, is of the Presbyterian Church - USA, degree-granting, a top-100 happiest school, offers on-campus housing, has a Phi Beta Kappa chapter, accepts the Common Application, was attended by a U.S. President, requires test scores for undergrad admissions, its top major is political science and government, is on the semester system, and enrolls from 1,000 to 4,999 students.

  • USNews Liberal Arts College ranking (9th place)
  • PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (83rd place)
  • research spending ($1.9M)
  • endowment per full-time student ($266,142)
  • average full-time teaching salary ($92,062)
  • in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($40,809)
  • out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($40,809)
  • average grant aid to undergrads ($26,445)
  • average undergrad student loan ($7,096)
  • cost of a shared room ($5,991)
  • research spending per student ($980)
  • full-time retention rate (97%)
  • undergrads who get financial aid (70%)
  • ratio of female full-time freshmen (51.1%)
  • in-state freshmen (21.8%)
  • undergrads who receive student loans (18%)
  • minorities (16.4%)
  • tuition & fees increase over three years (16.2%)
  • average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 13.9%)
  • undergrads who get Pell grants (12%)
  • Blacks or African Americans (6.8%)
  • Hispanics (5%)
  • foreign students (4.3%)
  • Asians (4.2%)
  • American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.4%)
  • non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
  • average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -12.2%)
  • 25th percentile SAT math score (640)
  • 25th percentile SAT reading score (620)
  • 25th percentile SAT writing score (620)
  • 75th percentile SAT math score (720)
  • 75th percentile SAT reading score (720)
  • 75th percentile SAT writing score (720)
  • alumni who played in the National Football League (6)
  • dorm capacity (1,618)
  • first-year applicants (4,770)
  • foreign students (82)
  • members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
  • men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
  • Rhodes Scholar alumni (23)
  • total 75th percentile SAT score (2,160)
  • yearly for-credit students (1,915)
  • on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (5.4)
  • students per faculty member (10)
  • annual rainfall (42.0 inches)
  • diversity and inclusion ratio (0.12)
  • elevation (248 meters)

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