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.
   

Illinois State Univ is in Normal, IL, is public, is in the Missouri Valley Conference, research intensive, has a nursing major, has its top Doctoral major in education, has its top major in education, offers on-campus housing, requires test scores for undergrad admissions, is on the semester system, its top Masters major is audiology/audiologist and speech-language pathology/pathologist, and enrolls 20,000 or more students.

• PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (326th place)
• Webometrics world ranking (1,040th place)
• research spending ($19.3M)
• average full-time teaching salary ($71,461)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($18,604)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($11,744)
• average undergrad student loan ($11,156)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($8,599)
• cost of a shared room ($5,002)
• endowment per full-time student ($3,462)
• research spending per student ($812)
• in-state freshmen (95.6%)
• undergrads among full-time students (88.2%)
• full-time retention rate (82%)
• undergrads who get financial aid (79%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (66%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (58.4%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (58%)
• grad students who are under 25 years old (30.7%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (25%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 21.8%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (20.9%)
• minorities (13.2%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (6.1%)
• Blacks or African Americans (5.7%)
• Hispanics (5.5%)
• foreign students (2%)
• Asians (1.8%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.2%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -17.9%)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (27)
• dorm capacity (6,073)
• first-year applicants (12,406)
• foreign students (473)
• full-time grad students (1,169)
• full-time undergrads (17,140)
• grad students (2,449)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• undergrads (18,257)
• yearly for-credit students (23,713)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (1.38)
• students per faculty member (19)
• annual rainfall (39.6 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.12)
• elevation (241 meters)

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