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.
   

UC Berkeley is in Berkeley, CA, is public, is in the Pacific-12 Conference, research intensive, a land-grant institution, a top-100 happiest school, a member of the American Association of Universities, has a Phi Beta Kappa chapter, has a law school, has had a Final Four men's basketball team, offers on-campus housing, plays division I/FBS football, requires test scores for undergrad admissions, its top major is cell/cellular and molecular biology, is on the semester system, its top Masters major is business administration and management, its top Doctoral major is law, and enrolls 20,000 or more students.

• ARWU world ranking (3rd place)
• Webometrics world ranking (6th place)
• USNews MBA ranking (7th place)
• Times Higher Education world ranking (8th place)
• USNews law school ranking (9th place)
• PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (20th place)
• Wall St. Journal feeder school ranking (41st place)
• Forbes Best Buy ranking (49th place)
• research spending ($481.9M)
• average full-time teaching salary ($125,345)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($35,752)
• endowment per full-time student ($31,621)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($16,141)
• cost of typical room and board ($15,304)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($12,874)
• research spending per student ($12,213)
• average undergrad student loan ($5,787)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (177.7%)
• full-time retention rate (96%)
• undergrads among full-time students (71.8%)
• in-state freshmen (71.4%)
• undergrads who get financial aid (62%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (52%)
• minorities (45.5%)
• Asians (31.1%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (29%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 26.6%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (24%)
• grad students who are under 25 years old (23.6%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (12.9%)
• foreign students (11.9%)
• Hispanics (11.2%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (6.4%)
• Blacks or African Americans (2.8%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.4%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -21%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (650)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (600)
• 25th percentile SAT writing score (620)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (770)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (720)
• 75th percentile SAT writing score (740)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (231)
• average January temperature (50.2 degrees)
• dorm capacity (8,267)
• first-year applicants (52,982)
• foreign students (4,702)
• full-time grad students (9,381)
• full-time undergrads (25,018)
• grad students (10,119)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (131)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (3)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (23)
• total 75th percentile SAT score (2,230)
• undergrads (25,774)
• yearly for-credit students (39,459)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (2.1)
• students per faculty member (17)
• annual rainfall (26.7 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.34)
• elevation (79 meters)

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