tied with UChicago, Notre Dame, and Grinnell College, all with 0.1%.

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

beat Virginia Military Inst. (0.2%), Colgate (0.2%), Princeton (0.2%), and Carleton College (0.2%), and others, ending with Hazelden Graduate School of Addiction Studies (100%).

1,445 out of the other 3,121 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for undergrads who are 25 years or older, e.g., Dell'Arte International School of Physical Theatre.

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).
   

Wake Forest is in Winston Salem, NC, is private and nonprofit, is in the Atlantic Coast Conference, research intensive, a top-100 happiest school, accepts the Common Application, has a Phi Beta Kappa chapter, has a law school, has had a Final Four men's basketball team, has its top major in business, offers a Doctor of Medicine degree, offers on-campus housing, plays division I/FBS football, is on the semester system, its top Masters major is business administration and management, its top Doctoral major is law, and enrolls from 5,000 to 9,999 students.

• USNews law school ranking (36th place)
• USNews MBA ranking (47th place)
• PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (77th place)
• Times Higher Education world ranking (180th place)
• ARWU world ranking (301st place)
• Webometrics world ranking (314th place)
• research spending ($146.2M)
• endowment per full-time student ($140,961)
• average full-time teaching salary ($97,033)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($43,200)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($43,200)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($23,368)
• research spending per student ($19,068)
• average undergrad student loan ($8,082)
• cost of a shared room ($7,800)
• full-time retention rate (94%)
• undergrads who get financial aid (80%)
• undergrads among full-time students (64.8%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (52.8%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (44%)
• grad students who are under 25 years old (43.2%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 24.1%)
• in-state freshmen (19.4%)
• minorities (18.1%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (14%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (11.9%)
• Blacks or African Americans (8.3%)
• disabled students (6%)
• Asians (5%)
• foreign students (4.7%)
• Hispanics (4.3%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.5%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (0.1%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -19.4%)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (111)
• average January temperature (39.5 degrees)
• dorm capacity (3,380)
• first-year applicants (11,407)
• foreign students (358)
• full-time grad students (2,527)
• full-time undergrads (4,746)
• grad students (2,617)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (1)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (14)
• undergrads (4,815)
• yearly for-credit students (7,665)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (9.35)
• students per faculty member (11)
• annual rainfall (46.9 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.26)
• elevation (298 meters)

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