with Caltech, Southern Illinois Univ Carbondale, New Jersey Inst. of Technology, and Polytechnic Inst. of NYU.

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.
   

Georgia Tech is in Atlanta, GA, is public, is in the Atlantic Coast Conference, research intensive, a top-100 happiest school, a member of the American Association of Universities, accepts the Common Application, has had a Final Four men's basketball team, has its top Masters major in engineering, has its top major in engineering, offers on-campus housing, plays division I/FBS football, requires test scores for undergrad admissions, was attended by a U.S. President, is on the semester system, its top Doctoral major is electrical and electronics engineering, and enrolls 20,000 or more students.

• USNews MBA ranking (27th place)
• Times Higher Education world ranking (28th place)
• PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (32nd place)
• Forbes Best Buy ranking (54th place)
• Webometrics world ranking (73rd place)
• ARWU world ranking (101st place)
• research spending ($452.7M)
• average full-time teaching salary ($108,008)
• endowment per full-time student ($74,480)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($29,402)
• research spending per student ($19,294)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($11,784)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($10,098)
• average undergrad student loan ($7,068)
• cost of a shared room ($5,574)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (191.2%)
• full-time retention rate (95%)
• undergrads who get financial aid (75%)
• undergrads among full-time students (67.4%)
• in-state freshmen (51%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (37.7%)
• grad students who are under 25 years old (36.9%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 36.3%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (31%)
• minorities (25.1%)
• foreign students (18.9%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (17%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (14.3%)
• Asians (14%)
• Blacks or African Americans (6%)
• Hispanics (5%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (4.5%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.1%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -26.6%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (660)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (600)
• 25th percentile SAT writing score (600)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (760)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (690)
• 75th percentile SAT writing score (700)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (163)
• dorm capacity (9,907)
• first-year applicants (14,088)
• foreign students (4,434)
• full-time grad students (5,576)
• full-time undergrads (13,272)
• grad students (7,030)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (1)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (2)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (4)
• total 75th percentile SAT score (2,150)
• undergrads (14,527)
• yearly for-credit students (23,461)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (1.48)
• students per faculty member (18)
• annual rainfall (51.5 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.14)
• elevation (304 meters)

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