nearest others are Colorado State Univ-Pueblo, U of Denver, Colorado State Univ-Fort Collins, and Oklahoma Christian Univ.

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.
   

Loyola Marymount is in Los Angeles, CA, is private and nonprofit, is Roman Catholic, grants doctorates, has a law school, offers on-campus housing, accepts the Common Application, has its top major in business, requires test scores for undergrad admissions, is on the semester system, its top Masters major is business/commerce, its top Doctoral major is law, and enrolls from 5,000 to 9,999 students.

• USNews law school ranking (68th place)
• PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (95th place)
• Webometrics world ranking (1,283rd place)
• research spending ($3.5M)
• average full-time teaching salary ($98,798)
• endowment per full-time student ($43,064)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($38,900)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($38,900)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($17,193)
• cost of typical room and board ($13,070)
• average undergrad student loan ($7,325)
• research spending per student ($343)
• undergrads who get financial aid (89%)
• full-time retention rate (89%)
• in-state freshmen (72%)
• undergrads among full-time students (64.1%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (58.5%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (51%)
• grad students who are under 25 years old (47.3%)
• minorities (38%)
• Hispanics (20.8%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (18%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 11.7%)
• Asians (11.4%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (9.8%)
• Blacks or African Americans (5.6%)
• disabled students (4%)
• foreign students (4%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (2.6%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.2%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -10.5%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (560)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (550)
• 25th percentile SAT writing score (560)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (660)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (640)
• 75th percentile SAT writing score (660)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (15)
• average January temperature (56.5 degrees)
• dorm capacity (3,210)
• first-year applicants (11,913)
• foreign students (409)
• full-time grad students (2,691)
• full-time undergrads (5,834)
• grad students (3,407)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (1)
• total 75th percentile SAT score (1,960)
• undergrads (6,085)
• yearly for-credit students (10,258)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (3.15)
• students per faculty member (11)
• annual rainfall (13.9 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.36)
• elevation (46 meters)

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