beat Hendrix College (82nd place), Millsaps College (82nd place), Austin College (82nd place), and Xavier U of Louisiana (161st place), and others, ending with Ouachita Baptist Univ (173rd place).

1. The 2014 US News National Liberal Arts College Rankings is at http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-colleges.
   
2. Distance calculations between two colleges use a mathematical formula for the distance on a sphere between two points.
   

Southwestern Univ is in Georgetown, TX, is private and nonprofit, is United Methodist, degree-granting, accepts the Common Application, has a Phi Beta Kappa chapter, has its top major in business, 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 (65th place)
• PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (349th place)
• research spending ($400K)
• endowment per full-time student ($181,217)
• average full-time teaching salary ($67,964)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($34,410)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($34,410)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($20,028)
• average undergrad student loan ($8,290)
• cost of a shared room ($4,940)
• research spending per student ($248)
• undergrads who get financial aid (94%)
• in-state freshmen (87.7%)
• full-time retention rate (86%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (61.6%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (51%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (26%)
• minorities (25.3%)
• Hispanics (17.1%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 16.4%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (13.9%)
• Asians (4%)
• Blacks or African Americans (3.3%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.9%)
• foreign students (0.3%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -14.1%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (550)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (530)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (650)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (660)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (9)
• average January temperature (47.9 degrees)
• dorm capacity (1,034)
• first-year applicants (2,795)
• foreign students (4)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (2)
• yearly for-credit students (1,419)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (4.7)
• students per faculty member (10)
• annual rainfall (37.3 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.09)
• elevation (217 meters)

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