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.
   

Colorado School of Mines is in Golden, CO, is public, is in the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference, research intensive, has its top Masters major in engineering, has its top major in engineering, offers on-campus housing, requires test scores for undergrad admissions, is on the semester system, its top Doctoral major is petroleum engineering, and enrolls from 5,000 to 9,999 students.

• PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (36th place)
• Times Higher Education world ranking (139th place)
• Webometrics world ranking (957th place)
• research spending ($34.3M)
• average full-time teaching salary ($90,175)
• endowment per full-time student ($38,360)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($30,684)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($15,654)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($8,308)
• average undergrad student loan ($6,880)
• cost of a shared room ($5,453)
• research spending per student ($5,145)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (96%)
• full-time retention rate (89%)
• undergrads who get financial aid (88%)
• undergrads among full-time students (72.6%)
• in-state freshmen (60.4%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (51%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 29.4%)
• grad students who are under 25 years old (29.1%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (25.4%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (16.2%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (16%)
• minorities (11.9%)
• foreign students (10%)
• Hispanics (6.5%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (6.3%)
• Asians (3.7%)
• Blacks or African Americans (1.2%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.5%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -22.7%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (630)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (570)
• 25th percentile SAT writing score (530)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (710)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (675)
• 75th percentile SAT writing score (640)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (2)
• average January temperature (29.1 degrees)
• dorm capacity (1,550)
• first-year applicants (10,145)
• foreign students (669)
• full-time grad students (1,168)
• full-time undergrads (3,952)
• grad students (1,565)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (1)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• total 75th percentile SAT score (2,025)
• undergrads (4,156)
• yearly for-credit students (6,673)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (0.6)
• students per faculty member (16)
• annual rainfall (22.8 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.05)
• elevation (1,759 meters)

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