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high rank; lower SATs

Westminster College has the highest USNews Liberal Arts College ranking (115th place) of the 422 colleges with as low a total 75th percentile SAT score (1,762).



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closest are Whittier College (126th place, 1,750), Morehouse College (126th place, 1,690), Wells College (141st place, 1,760), and Saint Vincent College (146th place, 1,730), ending with Virginia Wesleyan College (176th place, 1,650).

References

  1. The total 75th-percentile SAT score is calculated as the sum of the math, reading, and writing 75th-percentile scores, using college SAT data 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.

Profile

Westminster College is in New Wilmington, PA, is private and nonprofit, is in the Presidents' Athletic Conference, is of the Presbyterian Church - USA, degree-granting, accepts the Common Application, has its top Masters major in education, has its top major in education, offers on-campus housing, requires test scores for undergrad admissions, is on the semester system, and enrolls from 1,000 to 4,999 students.

  • USNews Liberal Arts College ranking (115th place)
  • average full-time teaching salary ($58,514)
  • endowment per full-time student ($52,750)
  • in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($31,510)
  • out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($31,510)
  • average grant aid to undergrads ($19,212)
  • cost of typical room and board ($9,570)
  • average undergrad student loan ($7,491)
  • research spending ($0.0K)
  • research spending per student ($0.0)
  • undergrads who get financial aid (100%)
  • undergrads among full-time students (96.6%)
  • full-time retention rate (87%)
  • undergrads who receive student loans (85%)
  • in-state freshmen (76.4%)
  • ratio of female full-time freshmen (56.6%)
  • undergrads who get Pell grants (37%)
  • tuition & fees increase over three years (12.4%)
  • average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 7.8%)
  • minorities (3.2%)
  • Blacks or African Americans (1.9%)
  • Asians (0.9%)
  • undergrads who are 25 years or older (0.7%)
  • Hispanics (0.2%)
  • American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.2%)
  • non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
  • foreign students (0%)
  • average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -7.2%)
  • 25th percentile SAT math score (480)
  • 25th percentile SAT reading score (470)
  • 25th percentile SAT writing score (470)
  • 75th percentile SAT math score (600)
  • 75th percentile SAT reading score (590)
  • 75th percentile SAT writing score (572)
  • alumni who played in the National Football League (3)
  • average January temperature (26.9 degrees)
  • dorm capacity (1,158)
  • first-year applicants (3,935)
  • foreign students (0)
  • full-time grad students (0)
  • full-time undergrads (1,408)
  • grad students (50)
  • members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
  • men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
  • Rhodes Scholar alumni (1)
  • total 75th percentile SAT score (1,762)
  • undergrads (1,429)
  • yearly for-credit students (1,720)
  • on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (0.2)
  • students per faculty member (12)
  • annual rainfall (39.5 inches)
  • diversity and inclusion ratio (0.02)
  • elevation (304 meters)

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