closest are Reed College (31, 3,131), Sewanee-U of the South (26, 3,369), U of South Dakota (9, 3,443), and Haverford (20, 3,626), ending with UCLA (11, 61,556).

1. The number of total first-year applicants is from the Institutional Characteristics Data File 2012-2013 (Provisional Release) as reported by the National Center for Education Statistics (http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds).
   
2. The list of Rhodes Scholars by institution was determined in Feb 2014, covering all winners through 2013, from http://www.rhodesscholar.org.
   

Virginia Military Inst. is in Lexington, VA, is public, degree-granting, offers on-campus housing, 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.

• PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (27th place)
• USNews Liberal Arts College ranking (65th place)
• Forbes Best Buy ranking (100th place)
• research spending ($400K)
• endowment per full-time student ($168,278)
• average full-time teaching salary ($73,969)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($33,811)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($13,835)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($12,676)
• average undergrad student loan ($8,392)
• cost of a shared room ($2,277)
• research spending per student ($218)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (144.4%)
• undergrads who get financial aid (84%)
• full-time retention rate (82%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (52%)
• in-state freshmen (51.8%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (17.7%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 16.5%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (16%)
• minorities (14.3%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (9.1%)
• Blacks or African Americans (5.5%)
• Asians (4.4%)
• Hispanics (4.1%)
• foreign students (1.6%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.3%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (0.2%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -14.1%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (540)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (520)
• 25th percentile SAT writing score (490)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (620)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (620)
• 75th percentile SAT writing score (590)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (14)
• average January temperature (34.0 degrees)
• dorm capacity (1,751)
• first-year applicants (1,996)
• foreign students (28)
• full-time undergrads (1,664)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (9)
• total 75th percentile SAT score (1,830)
• undergrads (1,664)
• yearly for-credit students (1,736)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (13.25)
• students per faculty member (12)
• annual rainfall (40.5 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.00)
• elevation (318 meters)

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