What's exceptional about George Washington Univ (gwu) ?
top major
with Tufts, Georgetown, American Univ, and Monterey Inst. of International Studies.
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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.
George Washington Univ is in Washington, DC, is private and nonprofit, research intensive, accepts the Common Application, has a Phi Beta Kappa chapter, has a law school, has a nursing major, has an emergency medical technology program, offers a Doctor of Medicine degree, offers on-campus housing, requires test scores for undergrad admissions, its top major is international relations and affairs, 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 clinical/medical laboratory technician, and enrolls 20,000 or more students.
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- USNews law school ranking (21st place)
- USNews MBA ranking (56th place)
- PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (74th place)
- Times Higher Education world ranking (194th place)
- ARWU world ranking (201st place)
- Webometrics world ranking (222nd place)
- research spending ($148.2M)
- average full-time teaching salary ($116,244)
- endowment per full-time student ($72,670)
- in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($43,705)
- out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($43,705)
- average grant aid to undergrads ($25,705)
- cost of a shared room ($9,650)
- average undergrad student loan ($7,448)
- research spending per student ($5,162)
- full-time retention rate (92%)
- undergrads who get financial aid (67%)
- ratio of female full-time freshmen (58.6%)
- undergrads who receive student loans (45%)
- undergrads among full-time students (40.8%)
- minorities (24.4%)
- average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 21.7%)
- grad students who are under 25 years old (21.7%)
- undergrads who get Pell grants (12%)
- tuition & fees increase over three years (9.9%)
- foreign students (9.9%)
- Blacks or African Americans (9.6%)
- Asians (8.4%)
- undergrads who are 25 years or older (6.8%)
- Hispanics (6%)
- American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.4%)
- non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
- average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -17.8%)
- 25th percentile SAT math score (610)
- 25th percentile SAT reading score (600)
- 25th percentile SAT writing score (620)
- 75th percentile SAT math score (690)
- 75th percentile SAT reading score (690)
- 75th percentile SAT writing score (710)
- alumni who played in the National Football League (23)
- average January temperature (36.0 degrees)
- dorm capacity (8,245)
- first-year applicants (21,591)
- foreign students (2,834)
- full-time grad students (7,633)
- full-time undergrads (9,758)
- grad students (15,189)
- members of the National Academy of Sciences (1)
- men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
- Rhodes Scholar alumni (1)
- total 75th percentile SAT score (2,090)
- undergrads (10,464)
- yearly for-credit students (28,699)
- on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (1.75)
- students per faculty member (13)
- annual rainfall (39.7 inches)
- diversity and inclusion ratio (0.23)
- elevation (17 meters)
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