beat out by Williams College (1st place) and Amherst College (2nd place).

Incidentally, all 3 are a top-100 happiest school.

beat Middlebury (4th place), Bowdoin College (4th place), Pomona College (4th place), and Carleton College (7th place), and others, ending with Erskine College (180th place).

1. The 2014 US News National Liberal Arts College Rankings is at http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-colleges.
   

Swarthmore is in Swarthmore, PA, is private and nonprofit, 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 (3rd place)
• Wall St. Journal feeder school ranking (10th place)
• PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (27th place)
• Webometrics world ranking (944th place)
• research spending ($3.0M)
• endowment per full-time student ($957,072)
• average full-time teaching salary ($105,532)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($43,080)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($43,080)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($35,783)
• cost of a shared room ($6,500)
• average undergrad student loan ($4,544)
• research spending per student ($1,906)
• full-time retention rate (97%)
• undergrads who get financial aid (62%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (50.5%)
• minorities (33.3%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (19%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (17%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (13.8%)
• Asians (13.5%)
• Hispanics (12.9%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 11.7%)
• in-state freshmen (9.8%)
• foreign students (7.6%)
• Blacks or African Americans (6.5%)
• disabled students (4%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (0.6%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.4%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -10.5%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (670)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (680)
• 25th percentile SAT writing score (680)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (770)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (780)
• 75th percentile SAT writing score (770)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (5)
• average January temperature (33.5 degrees)
• dorm capacity (1,429)
• first-year applicants (6,589)
• foreign students (119)
• full-time undergrads (1,537)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (28)
• total 75th percentile SAT score (2,320)
• undergrads (1,552)
• yearly for-credit students (1,562)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (5.98)
• students per faculty member (8)
• annual rainfall (39.3 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.22)
• elevation (39 meters)

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