nearest others are Ohio Univ, Pfeiffer Univ, New England College, and Independence Univ.

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.
   

U of St Francis is in Joliet, IL, is private and nonprofit, is in the Mid-States Football Association, is Roman Catholic, grants doctorates, has a nursing major, has its top major in nursing, offers on-campus housing, requires test scores for undergrad admissions, is on the semester system, its top Masters major is health/health care administration/management, its top Doctoral major is nursing practice, and enrolls from 1,000 to 4,999 students.

• average full-time teaching salary ($65,481)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($26,924)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($26,924)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($17,938)
• cost of typical room and board ($8,268)
• average undergrad student loan ($5,970)
• endowment per full-time student ($2,396)
• research spending ($0.0K)
• research spending per student ($0.0)
• undergrads who get financial aid (100%)
• in-state freshmen (90%)
• full-time retention rate (79%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (72%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (59.5%)
• undergrads among full-time students (53.8%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (39%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (35.8%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (18.6%)
• minorities (18.2%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 12.6%)
• Hispanics (8.5%)
• Blacks or African Americans (7.3%)
• grad students who are under 25 years old (5.9%)
• Asians (2.2%)
• foreign students (0.8%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.2%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -11.2%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (440)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (390)
• 25th percentile SAT writing score (410)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (540)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (520)
• 75th percentile SAT writing score (550)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• average January temperature (24.0 degrees)
• dorm capacity (402)
• first-year applicants (1,716)
• foreign students (38)
• full-time grad students (127)
• full-time undergrads (1,411)
• grad students (1,596)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• total 75th percentile SAT score (1,610)
• undergrads (1,856)
• yearly for-credit students (4,603)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (0.6)
• students per faculty member (11)
• annual rainfall (36.8 inches)
• elevation (196 meters)

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