beat out by Harvey Mudd (1st place), Caltech (3rd place), and Stevens Inst. of Technology (3rd place).

Incidentally, all 4 are an NCAA member.

beat Princeton (6th place), Stanford (8th place), Brown (8th place), and Harvard (8th place), and others, ending with Shaw Univ (1,017th place).

1. Mid-career median salary rankings are from the 2014 college salary report at http://www.payscale.com/college-salary-report-2014.
   

Babson is in Wellesley, MA, is private and nonprofit, degree-granting, offers on-campus housing, accepts the Common Application, has its top major in business, requires test scores for undergrad admissions, is on the semester system, its top Masters major is business administration and management, and enrolls from 1,000 to 4,999 students.

• PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (5th place)
• USNews MBA ranking (56th place)
• research spending ($4.1M)
• average full-time teaching salary ($122,822)
• endowment per full-time student ($72,507)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($41,888)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($41,888)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($29,856)
• cost of a shared room ($8,860)
• average undergrad student loan ($6,774)
• research spending per student ($1,048)
• full-time retention rate (94%)
• undergrads who get financial aid (53%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (48.2%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (37%)
• foreign students (26.9%)
• in-state freshmen (22.3%)
• minorities (20.9%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (16%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 11.4%)
• Asians (10.9%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (10.7%)
• disabled students (7%)
• Hispanics (6.6%)
• Blacks or African Americans (3.2%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.2%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -10.2%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (610)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (550)
• 25th percentile SAT writing score (580)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (710)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (640)
• 75th percentile SAT writing score (663)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• average January temperature (25.2 degrees)
• dorm capacity (1,738)
• first-year applicants (5,512)
• foreign students (1,054)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• total 75th percentile SAT score (2,013)
• yearly for-credit students (3,918)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (1.28)
• students per faculty member (13)
• annual rainfall (47.2 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (1.02)
• elevation (65 meters)

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