beat out by Notre Dame (24th place), Embry-Riddle Aeronautical Univ-Prescott (41st place), Kenyon College (41st place), and Saint Marys College of California (105th place).

Incidentally, none of the 5 is open admission.

beat West Virginia Univ Inst. of Technology (195th place), Hamilton College (220th place), Louisiana State Univ (229th place), and U of Idaho (243rd place), and others, ending with Lakeland College (972nd place).

1. Mid-career median salary rankings are from the 2014 college salary report at http://www.payscale.com/college-salary-report-2014.
   
2. Whether a college is rural, suburban, or in a town, city, or big city, is from the IPEDS Directory, 2012-13 (Provisional release) by the National Center for Education Statistics (http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds).
   

Hampden-Sydney College is in Hampden-Sydney, VA, is private and nonprofit, is in the Old Dominion Athletic Conference, degree-granting, has a Phi Beta Kappa chapter, accepts the Common Application, was attended by a U.S. President, 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 (97th place)
• PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (130th place)
• endowment per full-time student ($119,433)
• average full-time teaching salary ($68,374)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($35,570)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($35,570)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($18,570)
• average undergrad student loan ($7,017)
• research spending per student ($8)
• research spending ($0.0K)
• undergrads who get financial aid (99%)
• full-time retention rate (78%)
• in-state freshmen (71.3%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (61%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 23.8%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (17%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (15.9%)
• minorities (10.8%)
• disabled students (8%)
• Blacks or African Americans (7.3%)
• Hispanics (1.8%)
• Asians (1.2%)
• foreign students (1.1%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.5%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (0.3%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -19.2%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (510)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (490)
• 25th percentile SAT writing score (470)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (615)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (620)
• 75th percentile SAT writing score (580)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (3)
• average January temperature (35.3 degrees)
• first-year applicants (2,630)
• foreign students (12)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (2)
• total 75th percentile SAT score (1,815)
• yearly for-credit students (1,097)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (7.29)
• students per faculty member (11)
• annual rainfall (43.8 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.05)
• elevation (162 meters)

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