with Five Towns College and U of Northern Colorado.

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.
   

Ball State Univ is in Muncie, IN, is public, is in the Mid-American Conference, research intensive, a top-100 party school, has a nursing major, has its top Masters major in education, offers on-campus housing, plays division I/FBS football, requires test scores for undergrad admissions, its top major is liberal arts and sciences/liberal studies, is on the semester system, its top Doctoral major is music, its top Associates major is liberal arts and sciences, general studies and humanities, other, and enrolls 20,000 or more students.

• Webometrics world ranking (596th place)
• PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (702nd place)
• research spending ($18.5M)
• average full-time teaching salary ($63,552)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($23,650)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($9,752)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($8,980)
• cost of typical room and board ($8,502)
• endowment per full-time student ($7,801)
• average undergrad student loan ($6,220)
• research spending per student ($743)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (163.4%)
• undergrads who get financial aid (87%)
• in-state freshmen (85.6%)
• full-time retention rate (77%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (66%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (58.5%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (34%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 22.7%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (15.9%)
• minorities (9.3%)
• Blacks or African Americans (5.8%)
• foreign students (3%)
• Hispanics (2.5%)
• Asians (0.8%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.2%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -18.5%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (480)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (480)
• 25th percentile SAT writing score (470)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (580)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (580)
• 75th percentile SAT writing score (570)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (30)
• average January temperature (26.5 degrees)
• dorm capacity (6,906)
• first-year applicants (16,964)
• foreign students (746)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• total 75th percentile SAT score (1,730)
• yearly for-credit students (24,880)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (0.9)
• students per faculty member (16)
• annual rainfall (40.1 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.06)
• elevation (286 meters)

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