nearest others are Savannah College of Art and Design, Art Academy of Cincinnati, Maryland Inst. College of Art, and U of the Arts.

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.
   

Ringling College of Art and Design is in Sarasota, FL, is private and nonprofit, degree-granting, offers on-campus housing, accepts the Common Application, its top major is illustration, is on the semester system, and enrolls from 1,000 to 4,999 students.

• average full-time teaching salary ($70,123)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($36,950)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($36,950)
• endowment per full-time student ($20,478)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($11,938)
• average undergrad student loan ($8,211)
• cost of a shared room ($6,190)
• research spending ($0.0K)
• research spending per student ($0.0)
• undergrads who get financial aid (86%)
• full-time retention rate (79%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (71%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (63.8%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (35%)
• in-state freshmen (32.4%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (26.9%)
• minorities (22.7%)
• Hispanics (12.9%)
• disabled students (10%)
• foreign students (8.9%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 7.1%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (6.7%)
• Asians (6%)
• Blacks or African Americans (3.4%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.4%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -6.7%)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• average January temperature (61.4 degrees)
• dorm capacity (851)
• first-year applicants (1,255)
• foreign students (123)
• full-time undergrads (1,313)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• undergrads (1,364)
• yearly for-credit students (1,386)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (1.68)
• students per faculty member (12)
• annual rainfall (53.0 inches)
• elevation (3 meters)

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