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What's exceptional about U of Connecticut (uconn) ?

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less student dense; many grad students

Only U of Connecticut has both as many full-time grad students (5,196) and as low a local student density.

In other words, any other colleges with as many full-time grad students will have a higher local student density, and any other colleges with as low a local student density will have fewer full-time grad students.



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closest are Stony Brook Univ (5,237), Cornell (7,101), U of Virginia (6,056), and U of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (6,936), ending with Arizona State (9,117).

1,283 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for full-time grad students.

References

  1. Information on numbers and ages of the undergrad and graduate student body is from the file enrollment by age, gender, attendance status, and level of student: Fall 2012 (Provisional release) as reported by the National Center for Education Statistics (http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds).
  2. Student density refers to the total number of yearly for-credit students within a 5-mile radius, using enrollment data from the 12-month Unduplicated Head Count Data File, 2011-12 (Provisional release) and latitude/longitude data from the IPEDS Directory, 2012-13 (Provisional release) by the National Center for Education Statistics (http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds).

Profile

U of Connecticut is in Storrs, CT, is public, is in the Big East Conference, research intensive, a top-100 party school, a land-grant institution, accepts the Common Application, has a Phi Beta Kappa chapter, has a hospital, has a law school, has a nursing major, has had a Final Four men's basketball team, offers a Doctor of Medicine degree, offers on-campus housing, plays division I/FBS football, requires test scores for undergrad admissions, its top major is psychology, is on the semester system, its top Masters major is business administration and management, its top Doctoral major is law, its top Associates major is animal sciences, and enrolls 20,000 or more students.

  • USNews MBA ranking (58th place)
  • USNews law school ranking (58th place)
  • Forbes Best Buy ranking (97th place)
  • Webometrics world ranking (187th place)
  • ARWU world ranking (201st place)
  • PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (256th place)
  • Times Higher Education world ranking (301st place)
  • research spending ($157.0M)
  • average full-time teaching salary ($103,919)
  • out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($29,074)
  • endowment per full-time student ($11,983)
  • in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($11,242)
  • average grant aid to undergrads ($10,297)
  • average undergrad student loan ($6,638)
  • cost of a shared room ($6,096)
  • research spending per student ($5,562)
  • non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (158.6%)
  • full-time retention rate (93%)
  • undergrads who get financial aid (79%)
  • in-state freshmen (71.5%)
  • undergrads among full-time students (68.8%)
  • undergrads who receive student loans (54%)
  • ratio of female full-time freshmen (49.5%)
  • grad students who are under 25 years old (31%)
  • average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 23.4%)
  • minorities (19.4%)
  • undergrads who get Pell grants (18%)
  • tuition & fees increase over three years (14.1%)
  • Asians (7.5%)
  • foreign students (7.3%)
  • disabled students (7%)
  • Hispanics (6.2%)
  • Blacks or African Americans (5.5%)
  • undergrads who are 25 years or older (3.4%)
  • American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.2%)
  • average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -19%)
  • 25th percentile SAT math score (580)
  • 25th percentile SAT reading score (550)
  • 75th percentile SAT math score (680)
  • 75th percentile SAT reading score (650)
  • alumni who played in the National Football League (43)
  • average January temperature (25.8 degrees)
  • dorm capacity (12,469)
  • first-year applicants (29,966)
  • foreign students (2,049)
  • full-time grad students (5,196)
  • full-time undergrads (16,736)
  • grad students (7,955)
  • members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
  • men's basketball Final Four appearances (5)
  • Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
  • undergrads (17,528)
  • yearly for-credit students (28,218)
  • on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (1.72)
  • students per faculty member (17)
  • annual rainfall (49.8 inches)
  • elevation (183 meters)

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