bested Southern Univ at New Orleans ($2,929) and U of North Dakota ($3,673).

Incidentally, all 3 are public.

trailed Metropolitan State U of Denver ($4,556), U of Northern Iowa ($4,746), Washburn Univ ($4,756), and Western Michigan Univ ($5,262), and others, ending with Smith College ($33,050).

1 out of the other 61 colleges was ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for average grant aid to undergrads, i.e., U of Maryland-Baltimore.

1. The data on undergrad loans, financial aid, and Pell grants are from the Student Financial Aid Data File, 2011-12 (Provisional release) as reported 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.
   

Salisbury Univ is in Salisbury, MD, is public, grants doctorates, has a nursing major, offers on-campus housing, accepts the Common Application, its top major is speech communication and rhetoric, is on a four-one-four calendar, its top Masters major is social work, and enrolls from 5,000 to 9,999 students.

• PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (432nd place)
• research spending ($1.0M)
• average full-time teaching salary ($65,311)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($16,046)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($7,700)
• average undergrad student loan ($6,050)
• cost of a shared room ($5,250)
• endowment per full-time student ($4,408)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($4,067)
• research spending per student ($100)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (108.4%)
• undergrads who get financial aid (86%)
• full-time retention rate (84%)
• in-state freshmen (75.6%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (59.5%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (53%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (19%)
• minorities (17.4%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 16.2%)
• Blacks or African Americans (10.9%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (6.2%)
• Hispanics (3.9%)
• Asians (2.3%)
• foreign students (1.2%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.3%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -13.9%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (540)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (530)
• 25th percentile SAT writing score (530)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (620)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (610)
• 75th percentile SAT writing score (600)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (1)
• average January temperature (37.9 degrees)
• dorm capacity (2,071)
• first-year applicants (8,866)
• foreign students (118)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• total 75th percentile SAT score (1,830)
• yearly for-credit students (9,582)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (1.57)
• students per faculty member (17)
• annual rainfall (45.9 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.04)
• elevation (7 meters)

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