What's exceptional about U of the Cumberlands (ucumberlands) ?
cheap room & board; top major
U of the Cumberlands has the 2nd-cheapest typical room and board ($7,000) of the 102 colleges whose top major is business/commerce.
But it's still above the median of $6,410 and average of $6,398 across all 15 Baptist colleges. Those $7,000 compare to an average of $9,067 across the 102 colleges.
But it's still above the median of $6,410 and average of $6,398 across all 15 Baptist colleges. Those $7,000 compare to an average of $9,067 across the 102 colleges.
Missouri Southern State Univ is first with $6,113.
Incidentally, both require test scores for undergrad admissions.
beat Campbellsville Univ ($7,120), Kentucky Wesleyan College ($7,200), Lindenwood Univ ($7,580), and Indiana Univ-Purdue Univ-Indianapolis ($7,944), and others, ending with Loyola Marymount ($13,070).
90 out of the other 101 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for cost of typical room and board, e.g., Humacao Community College.
Incidentally, both require test scores for undergrad admissions.
beat Campbellsville Univ ($7,120), Kentucky Wesleyan College ($7,200), Lindenwood Univ ($7,580), and Indiana Univ-Purdue Univ-Indianapolis ($7,944), and others, ending with Loyola Marymount ($13,070).
90 out of the other 101 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for cost of typical room and board, e.g., Humacao Community College.
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The costs of room and board are from the Institutional Characteristics Data File 2012-2013 (Provisional Release) as reported by the National Center for Education Statistics (http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds).
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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.
U of the Cumberlands is in Williamsburg, KY, is private and nonprofit, is in the Mid-South Conference, is Baptist, grants doctorates, has its top Doctoral major in education, has its top Masters major in education, has its top major in business, offers on-campus housing, requires test scores for undergrad admissions, is on the semester system, and enrolls from 1,000 to 4,999 students.
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- average full-time teaching salary ($50,482)
- endowment per full-time student ($22,471)
- in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($19,000)
- out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($19,000)
- average grant aid to undergrads ($13,630)
- cost of typical room and board ($7,000)
- average undergrad student loan ($5,184)
- research spending ($0.0K)
- research spending per student ($0.0)
- undergrads who get financial aid (100%)
- undergrads who receive student loans (76%)
- full-time retention rate (63%)
- in-state freshmen (56.4%)
- undergrads who get Pell grants (55%)
- undergrads among full-time students (43.4%)
- ratio of female full-time freshmen (40.9%)
- tuition & fees increase over three years (21.3%)
- undergrads who are 25 years or older (19.6%)
- grad students who are under 25 years old (7.6%)
- minorities (6.6%)
- Blacks or African Americans (4.5%)
- foreign students (2.6%)
- average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, 2.3%)
- Hispanics (1.4%)
- Asians (0.5%)
- American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.2%)
- non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
- average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, -2.2%)
- 25th percentile SAT math score (440)
- 25th percentile SAT reading score (420)
- 75th percentile SAT math score (550)
- 75th percentile SAT reading score (490)
- alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
- average January temperature (34.2 degrees)
- dorm capacity (1,213)
- first-year applicants (2,460)
- foreign students (130)
- full-time grad students (683)
- full-time undergrads (1,481)
- grad students (2,433)
- members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
- men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
- Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
- undergrads (1,864)
- yearly for-credit students (4,922)
- on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (1.49)
- students per faculty member (15)
- annual rainfall (50.1 inches)
- diversity and inclusion ratio (0.06)
- elevation (295 meters)
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