nearest others are Inst. of American Indian and Alaska Native Culture, College of Visual Arts, Memphis College of Art, and School of the Art Inst. of Chicago.

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.
   

Laguna College of Art and Design is in Laguna Beach, CA, is private and nonprofit, degree-granting, offers on-campus housing, its top major is fine/studio arts, is on the semester system, its top Masters major is fine/studio arts, and enrolls fewer than 1,000 students.

• average full-time teaching salary ($63,897)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($25,000)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($25,000)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($8,639)
• cost of a shared room ($8,500)
• average undergrad student loan ($5,281)
• endowment per full-time student ($3,071)
• research spending ($0.0K)
• research spending per student ($0.0)
• undergrads who get financial aid (100%)
• full-time retention rate (73%)
• in-state freshmen (67.9%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (66%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (61.8%)
• minorities (29.8%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (27%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (15.7%)
• Asians (15.3%)
• Hispanics (13.1%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, 12.9%)
• foreign students (3.2%)
• Blacks or African Americans (1.2%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.2%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, -11.4%)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• average January temperature (55.8 degrees)
• dorm capacity (40)
• first-year applicants (444)
• foreign students (16)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• yearly for-credit students (502)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (5.31)
• students per faculty member (12)
• annual rainfall (13.8 inches)
• elevation (104 meters)

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