with Miami of Ohio and Bucknell.

1. Information on majors and programs of study is from the Completions Data File, 2011-12 (Provisional release) as reported by the National Center for Education Statistics (http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds). Top majors are the ones that have the most conferred degrees. If it says "is in" rather than just "is", then various top majors were combined into a new attribute. For example, colleges whose top major is "in engineering" will include a college whose top major is chemical engineering, another whose top major is electrical engineering, and so on.
   

Middlebury is in Middlebury, VT, is private and nonprofit, is in the New England Small College Ath Conf, a top-100 happiest school, grants doctorates, 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 a four-one-four calendar, its top Masters major is English language and literature, its top Doctoral major is French language and literature and german language and literature, and enrolls from 1,000 to 4,999 students.

• USNews Liberal Arts College ranking (4th place)
• Wall St. Journal feeder school ranking (23rd place)
• PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (70th place)
• Webometrics world ranking (1,005th place)
• research spending ($9.8M)
• endowment per full-time student ($250,020)
• average full-time teaching salary ($95,073)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($44,111)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($44,111)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($33,226)
• cost of typical room and board ($11,839)
• average undergrad student loan ($5,516)
• research spending per student ($2,103)
• full-time retention rate (97%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (51.5%)
• undergrads who get financial aid (43%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (31%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 17.5%)
• minorities (13.7%)
• foreign students (10.6%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (10.1%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (10%)
• Hispanics (6.4%)
• in-state freshmen (4.8%)
• Asians (4.4%)
• Blacks or African Americans (2.7%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.2%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -14.9%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (650)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (640)
• 25th percentile SAT writing score (650)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (740)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (740)
• 75th percentile SAT writing score (760)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (2)
• average January temperature (18.0 degrees)
• dorm capacity (2,420)
• first-year applicants (8,533)
• foreign students (490)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (16)
• total 75th percentile SAT score (2,240)
• yearly for-credit students (4,637)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (4.39)
• students per faculty member (9)
• annual rainfall (41.4 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.12)
• elevation (139 meters)

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