unlike Stanford, Princeton, U of Maryland-College Park, and Washington Univ in St Louis, and 733 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.
   

Montserrat College of Art is in Beverly, MA, is private and nonprofit, open admission, degree-granting, offers on-campus housing, its top major is illustration, is on the semester system, and enrolls fewer than 1,000 students.

• average full-time teaching salary ($52,980)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($26,650)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($26,650)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($11,864)
• average undergrad student loan ($8,996)
• cost of a shared room ($7,300)
• endowment per full-time student ($1,623)
• research spending ($0.0K)
• research spending per student ($0.0)
• undergrads who get financial aid (88%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (82%)
• full-time retention rate (68%)
• in-state freshmen (41.2%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (40%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (11.1%)
• minorities (6.6%)
• disabled students (5%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 4.2%)
• Hispanics (4.2%)
• Blacks or African Americans (2.2%)
• foreign students (0.5%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.2%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• Asians (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -4%)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• average January temperature (26.0 degrees)
• dorm capacity (278)
• foreign students (2)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• yearly for-credit students (402)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (3.32)
• students per faculty member (12)
• annual rainfall (46.2 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.01)
• elevation (12 meters)

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