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.
   

Towson Univ is in Towson, MD, is public, is in the Colonial Athletic Association, accepts the Common Application, grants doctorates, has a nursing major, 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, its top Doctoral major is speech-language pathology/pathologist, and enrolls 20,000 or more students.

• Forbes Best Buy ranking (87th place)
• PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (391st place)
• Webometrics world ranking (971st place)
• research spending ($3.5M)
• average full-time teaching salary ($65,684)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($19,754)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($8,132)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($7,889)
• average undergrad student loan ($6,449)
• cost of a shared room ($5,910)
• endowment per full-time student ($2,726)
• research spending per student ($136)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (142.9%)
• full-time retention rate (86%)
• undergrads who get financial aid (77%)
• in-state freshmen (73.5%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (66.7%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (56%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (22%)
• minorities (21.4%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 17.4%)
• Blacks or African Americans (13.6%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (8.3%)
• Asians (3.9%)
• Hispanics (3.5%)
• foreign students (3.3%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.4%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -14.8%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (500)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (490)
• 25th percentile SAT writing score (500)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (600)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (580)
• 75th percentile SAT writing score (590)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (8)
• average January temperature (32.6 degrees)
• dorm capacity (4,567)
• first-year applicants (18,128)
• foreign students (830)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• total 75th percentile SAT score (1,770)
• yearly for-credit students (25,348)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (0.6)
• students per faculty member (17)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.10)
• elevation (139 meters)

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