after Hollins Univ (110th place, 70%), closest are Wells College (141st place, 70%), Salem College (156th place, 69%), Xavier U of Louisiana (161st place, 65%), and Centenary College of Louisiana (167th place, 69%), ending with Erskine College (180th place, 63%).

1. Student retention data are from the file total entering class, retention rates, and student-to-faculty ratio: Fall 2012 (Provisional release) as reported by the National Center for Education Statistics (http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds).
   
2. The 2014 US News National Liberal Arts College Rankings is at http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-colleges.
   

Hollins Univ is in Roanoke, VA, is private and nonprofit, degree-granting, offers on-campus housing, has a Phi Beta Kappa chapter, accepts the Common Application, requires test scores for undergrad admissions, its top major is English language and literature, is on a four-one-four calendar, its top Masters major is English language and literature/letters, other, and enrolls fewer than 1,000 students.

• USNews Liberal Arts College ranking (110th place)
• research spending ($600K)
• endowment per full-time student ($137,180)
• average full-time teaching salary ($62,609)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($32,075)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($32,075)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($23,312)
• average undergrad student loan ($7,753)
• cost of a shared room ($6,700)
• research spending per student ($521)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (100%)
• undergrads who get financial aid (100%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (73%)
• full-time retention rate (70%)
• in-state freshmen (48.4%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (41%)
• minorities (15.9%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (14.1%)
• Blacks or African Americans (9.6%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 9%)
• foreign students (4.6%)
• Hispanics (4.1%)
• disabled students (4%)
• Asians (1.9%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.3%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -8.3%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (460)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (500)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (590)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (650)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• average January temperature (35.3 degrees)
• dorm capacity (676)
• first-year applicants (814)
• foreign students (54)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• yearly for-credit students (1,183)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (3.66)
• students per faculty member (8)
• annual rainfall (44.5 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.02)
• elevation (323 meters)

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