unlike Harvard, MIT, Cornell, and UC Berkeley, and 808 others.

1. Whether a college is rural, suburban, or in a town, city, or big city, is from the IPEDS Directory, 2012-13 (Provisional release) by the National Center for Education Statistics (http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds).
   
2. 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.
   

Grand View Univ is in Des Moines, IA, is private and nonprofit, is in the Mid-States Football Association, is of the Evangelical Lutheran Church, degree-granting, 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 organizational leadership, its top Associates major is general studies, and enrolls from 1,000 to 4,999 students.

• PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (965th place)
• average full-time teaching salary ($55,574)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($21,826)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($21,826)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($12,972)
• endowment per full-time student ($9,306)
• average undergrad student loan ($7,334)
• cost of a shared room ($3,694)
• research spending ($0.0K)
• research spending per student ($0.0)
• undergrads who get financial aid (100%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (85%)
• in-state freshmen (76.9%)
• full-time retention rate (73%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (47.1%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (39%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (13.2%)
• minorities (13.1%)
• Blacks or African Americans (7.5%)
• Hispanics (3%)
• Asians (2.3%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 1.6%)
• foreign students (1.2%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.3%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -1.6%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (410)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (380)
• 25th percentile SAT writing score (520)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (520)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (500)
• 75th percentile SAT writing score (580)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• average January temperature (22.6 degrees)
• dorm capacity (800)
• first-year applicants (850)
• foreign students (28)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• total 75th percentile SAT score (1,600)
• yearly for-credit students (2,244)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (1.78)
• students per faculty member (13)
• annual rainfall (36.0 inches)
• elevation (259 meters)

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