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.
   

California Maritime Academy is in Vallejo, CA, is public, degree-granting, offers on-campus housing, its top major is marine science/merchant marine officer, is on the semester system, and enrolls fewer than 1,000 students.

• Forbes Best Buy ranking (24th place)
• research spending ($200K)
• average full-time teaching salary ($75,290)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($18,194)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($8,918)
• average undergrad student loan ($6,821)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($6,536)
• cost of a shared room ($4,910)
• endowment per full-time student ($2,972)
• research spending per student ($224)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (178.4%)
• in-state freshmen (88.9%)
• full-time retention rate (82%)
• undergrads who get financial aid (63%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (56%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (25%)
• minorities (24.3%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (19.2%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (15.5%)
• Hispanics (12.7%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (12%)
• Asians (7.3%)
• disabled students (5%)
• Blacks or African Americans (3.7%)
• foreign students (1%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.6%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, 0.5%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, -0.5%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (470)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (450)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (590)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (585)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• average January temperature (45.4 degrees)
• dorm capacity (705)
• first-year applicants (681)
• foreign students (9)
• full-time undergrads (951)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• undergrads (973)
• yearly for-credit students (901)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (5.55)
• students per faculty member (16)
• annual rainfall (20.2 inches)
• elevation (11 meters)

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