surpassed Dartmouth ($45,042), Williams College ($44,920), Oberlin ($44,905), and Bard College ($44,798), and others, ending with Saint Johns River State College ($2,760).

11 out of the other 406 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees, e.g., New England Culinary Institute.

1. Whether a college is rural, suburban, or in a town, city, or big city, is from the IPEDS Directory, 2012-13 (Provisional release) by the National Center for Education Statistics (http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds).
   
2. 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).
   

Bucknell is in Lewisburg, PA, is private and nonprofit, degree-granting, a top-100 party school, a top-100 happiest school, offers on-campus housing, has a Phi Beta Kappa chapter, accepts the Common Application, requires test scores for undergrad admissions, its top major is economics, is on the semester system, its top Masters major is chemistry and English language and literature, and enrolls from 1,000 to 4,999 students.

• USNews Liberal Arts College ranking (32nd place)
• PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (49th place)
• Webometrics world ranking (1,004th place)
• research spending ($2.2M)
• endowment per full-time student ($161,732)
• average full-time teaching salary ($84,773)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($45,378)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($45,378)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($27,936)
• cost of a shared room ($6,330)
• average undergrad student loan ($6,165)
• research spending per student ($584)
• undergrads among full-time students (97.7%)
• full-time retention rate (95%)
• grad students who are under 25 years old (62.2%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (55.1%)
• undergrads who get financial aid (54%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (40%)
• in-state freshmen (17.5%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (11.2%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 10.5%)
• minorities (10.2%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (9%)
• foreign students (5.3%)
• disabled students (5%)
• Hispanics (4.2%)
• Asians (3.2%)
• Blacks or African Americans (2.8%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (0.9%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -9.5%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (620)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (590)
• 25th percentile SAT writing score (600)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (720)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (690)
• 75th percentile SAT writing score (690)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (42)
• average January temperature (26.9 degrees)
• dorm capacity (3,017)
• first-year applicants (8,291)
• foreign students (200)
• full-time grad students (54)
• full-time undergrads (3,515)
• grad students (82)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• total 75th percentile SAT score (2,100)
• undergrads (3,536)
• yearly for-credit students (3,760)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (3.1)
• students per faculty member (10)
• annual rainfall (43.2 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.10)
• elevation (148 meters)

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