1. Tuition and fees are from the Institutional Characteristics Data File 2012-2013 (Provisional Release) as reported 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.
   

U of North Carolina at Asheville is in Asheville, NC, is public, degree-granting, offers on-campus housing, accepts the Common Application, requires test scores for undergrad admissions, its top major is psychology, is on the semester system, its top Masters major is liberal arts and sciences/liberal studies, and enrolls from 1,000 to 4,999 students.

• Forbes Best Buy ranking (21st place)
• USNews Liberal Arts College ranking (146th place)
• PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (794th place)
• research spending ($1.2M)
• average full-time teaching salary ($67,812)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($19,738)
• endowment per full-time student ($8,440)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($7,001)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($5,916)
• average undergrad student loan ($5,600)
• cost of a shared room ($4,348)
• research spending per student ($260)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (233.6%)
• undergrads among full-time students (98.5%)
• in-state freshmen (82.8%)
• full-time retention rate (78%)
• undergrads who get financial aid (73%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (59.7%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (50%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (31%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (23.2%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (23%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 13.8%)
• minorities (10.3%)
• grad students who are under 25 years old (6.9%)
• Blacks or African Americans (4.5%)
• Hispanics (4.1%)
• disabled students (4%)
• foreign students (1.5%)
• Asians (1.3%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.4%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -12.1%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (530)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (540)
• 25th percentile SAT writing score (510)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (620)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (640)
• 75th percentile SAT writing score (630)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• average January temperature (37.2 degrees)
• dorm capacity (1,382)
• first-year applicants (2,945)
• foreign students (72)
• full-time grad students (0)
• full-time undergrads (3,054)
• grad students (58)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• total 75th percentile SAT score (1,890)
• undergrads (3,693)
• yearly for-credit students (4,672)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (1.71)
• students per faculty member (14)
• annual rainfall (37.0 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.18)
• elevation (627 meters)

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