nearest others are New York Inst. of Technology, Wentworth Inst. of Technology, Boston Architectural College, and Lawrence Technological Univ.

1. College geographic information 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.
   

Catholic U of America is in Washington, DC, is private and nonprofit, is in the Old Dominion Athletic Conference, is Roman Catholic, research intensive, accepts the Common Application, has a Phi Beta Kappa chapter, has a law school, has a nursing major, offers on-campus housing, requires test scores for undergrad admissions, its top major is architecture, is on the semester system, its top Masters major is social work, its top Doctoral major is law, its top Associates major is special education and teaching, and enrolls from 5,000 to 9,999 students.

• USNews law school ranking (80th place)
• PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (99th place)
• Webometrics world ranking (1,080th place)
• research spending ($19.1M)
• average full-time teaching salary ($86,151)
• endowment per full-time student ($41,117)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($36,820)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($36,820)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($18,024)
• cost of a shared room ($8,876)
• average undergrad student loan ($8,316)
• research spending per student ($2,573)
• undergrads who get financial aid (94%)
• full-time retention rate (84%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (68%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (54%)
• minorities (17.8%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (15.5%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (12%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 11.2%)
• disabled students (8%)
• Blacks or African Americans (6.9%)
• foreign students (6.8%)
• Hispanics (6.8%)
• Asians (3.9%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.2%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -10.1%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (500)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (510)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (610)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (610)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (20)
• average January temperature (35.5 degrees)
• dorm capacity (2,164)
• first-year applicants (6,361)
• foreign students (507)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• yearly for-credit students (7,416)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (1.48)
• students per faculty member (9)
• annual rainfall (43.5 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.06)
• elevation (66 meters)

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