unlike Stanford, Princeton, U of Maryland-College Park, and Washington Univ in St Louis, and 733 others.

1. Whether a college is rural, suburban, or in a town, city, or big city, is from the IPEDS Directory, 2012-13 (Provisional release) by the National Center for Education Statistics (http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds).
   
2. 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.
   

San Diego Christian College is in El Cajon, CA, is private and nonprofit, is religiously affiliated but nondenominational, degree-granting, offers on-campus housing, requires test scores for undergrad admissions, its top major is human development and family studies, is on the semester system, and enrolls fewer than 1,000 students.

• average full-time teaching salary ($53,124)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($25,108)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($25,108)
• average undergrad student loan ($12,172)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($11,054)
• cost of typical room and board ($8,740)
• endowment per full-time student ($874)
• research spending ($0.0K)
• research spending per student ($0.0)
• undergrads who get financial aid (98%)
• in-state freshmen (76.7%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (76%)
• full-time retention rate (67%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (50%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (46.3%)
• minorities (33.5%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (16.2%)
• Blacks or African Americans (16.2%)
• Hispanics (15.3%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 2.3%)
• Asians (1.1%)
• foreign students (0.9%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.9%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -2.3%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (420)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (400)
• 25th percentile SAT writing score (420)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (520)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (480)
• 75th percentile SAT writing score (520)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• dorm capacity (210)
• first-year applicants (596)
• foreign students (7)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• total 75th percentile SAT score (1,520)
• yearly for-credit students (808)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (4.95)
• students per faculty member (17)
• annual rainfall (15.6 inches)
• elevation (214 meters)

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