nearest others are College of Charleston, Indiana Univ-Kokomo, Cheyney U of Pennsylvania, and CUNY John Jay College of Criminal Justice.

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.
   
2. Distance calculations between two colleges use a mathematical formula for the distance on a sphere between two points.
   

Jacksonville State Univ is in Jacksonville, AL, is public, is in the Ohio Valley Conference, grants doctorates, has a nursing major, has its top major in nursing, offers on-campus housing, requires test scores for undergrad admissions, is on the semester system, its top Masters major is public administration, and enrolls from 5,000 to 9,999 students.

• PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (757th place)
• research spending ($200K)
• average full-time teaching salary ($62,211)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($15,900)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($7,950)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($7,504)
• average undergrad student loan ($6,733)
• cost of a shared room ($3,550)
• endowment per full-time student ($1,344)
• research spending per student ($18)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (100%)
• undergrads who get financial aid (93%)
• undergrads among full-time students (87.2%)
• in-state freshmen (77.9%)
• full-time retention rate (67%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (61%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (56.5%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (48%)
• minorities (29.4%)
• Blacks or African Americans (27.6%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (27.4%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (23.8%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 19.8%)
• grad students who are under 25 years old (14.2%)
• disabled students (4%)
• foreign students (2.5%)
• Hispanics (0.9%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.5%)
• Asians (0.4%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -16.5%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (430)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (430)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (540)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (540)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (15)
• dorm capacity (1,992)
• first-year applicants (3,161)
• foreign students (287)
• full-time grad students (213)
• full-time undergrads (6,044)
• grad students (1,170)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• undergrads (7,991)
• yearly for-credit students (11,374)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (1.58)
• students per faculty member (18)
• annual rainfall (51.8 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.05)
• elevation (194 meters)

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