after Lafayette College (36th place, 580), closest are Sewanee-U of the South (38th place, 570), Soka U of America (41st place, 540), Skidmore College (45th place, 560), and Centre College (49th place, 560), ending with Eastern Mennonite Univ (180th place, 420).

1. College SAT data is from the Institutional Characteristics Data File 2012-2013 (Provisional Release) as reported by the National Center for Education Statistics (http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds). Note that only about 41% of all colleges in this dataset reported at least one numeric SAT score.
   
2. The 2014 US News National Liberal Arts College Rankings is at http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-colleges.
   

Lafayette College is in Easton, PA, is private and nonprofit, 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, requires test scores for undergrad admissions, its top major is economics, is on the semester system, and enrolls from 1,000 to 4,999 students.

• USNews Liberal Arts College ranking (36th place)
• PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (44th place)
• research spending ($600K)
• endowment per full-time student ($249,715)
• average full-time teaching salary ($94,312)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($42,280)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($42,280)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($31,815)
• cost of a shared room ($7,834)
• average undergrad student loan ($6,443)
• research spending per student ($231)
• full-time retention rate (95%)
• undergrads who get financial aid (68%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (52%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (46.3%)
• in-state freshmen (21.3%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 16.6%)
• minorities (13.5%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (13%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (11.7%)
• disabled students (6%)
• foreign students (5.6%)
• Hispanics (5.2%)
• Blacks or African Americans (4.6%)
• Asians (3.6%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (0.9%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.1%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -14.2%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (610)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (580)
• 25th percentile SAT writing score (580)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (710)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (680)
• 75th percentile SAT writing score (680)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (28)
• average January temperature (28.1 degrees)
• dorm capacity (2,286)
• first-year applicants (6,660)
• foreign students (142)
• full-time undergrads (2,438)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (1)
• total 75th percentile SAT score (2,070)
• undergrads (2,488)
• yearly for-credit students (2,549)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (7.19)
• students per faculty member (10)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.07)
• elevation (101 meters)

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