with U of Alabama in Huntsville and Colorado School of Mines.

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.
   

Louisiana Tech Univ is in Ruston, LA, is public, is in the Western Athletic Conference, research intensive, has its top Associates major in nursing, has its top Masters major in engineering, offers on-campus housing, plays division I/FBS football, requires test scores for undergrad admissions, its top major is general studies, is on the quarter system, its top Doctoral major is engineering, and enrolls from 10,000 to 19,999 students.

• Forbes Best Buy ranking (67th place)
• PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (234th place)
• Webometrics world ranking (1,217th place)
• research spending ($21.0M)
• average full-time teaching salary ($65,283)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($15,196)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($7,402)
• endowment per full-time student ($7,071)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($6,574)
• average undergrad student loan ($4,865)
• cost of a shared room ($2,625)
• research spending per student ($1,531)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (131.2%)
• undergrads who get financial aid (95%)
• in-state freshmen (83.5%)
• undergrads among full-time students (79.2%)
• full-time retention rate (76%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (43.1%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (42.1%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (40%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (31%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 24.5%)
• grad students who are under 25 years old (19.1%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (17.6%)
• minorities (17.4%)
• Blacks or African Americans (14.6%)
• foreign students (5.8%)
• Hispanics (1.2%)
• Asians (1.1%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.5%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -19.7%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (500)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (450)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (650)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (570)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (63)
• average January temperature (43.9 degrees)
• dorm capacity (2,452)
• first-year applicants (4,580)
• foreign students (800)
• full-time grad students (1,100)
• full-time undergrads (6,478)
• grad students (2,346)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• undergrads (8,958)
• yearly for-credit students (13,696)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (1.78)
• students per faculty member (21)
• annual rainfall (54.8 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.01)
• elevation (86 meters)

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