nearest others are School of the Art Inst. of Chicago, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, School of the Museum of Fine Arts-Boston, and Maine College of Art.

1. The regions of the country are divided into New England, Mid Atlantic, Southeast, Southwest, Far West, Rocky Mountains, Great Lakes, Plains, and Outlying Areas.
   
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.
   

Minneapolis College of Art and Design is in Minneapolis, MN, is private and nonprofit, degree-granting, offers on-campus housing, requires test scores for undergrad admissions, its top major is illustration, is on the semester system, its top Masters major is fine/studio arts, and enrolls fewer than 1,000 students.

• average full-time teaching salary ($60,132)
• endowment per full-time student ($54,456)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($31,650)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($31,650)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($13,014)
• average undergrad student loan ($9,698)
• cost of a shared room ($4,650)
• research spending ($0.0K)
• research spending per student ($0.0)
• undergrads who get financial aid (92%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (89%)
• full-time retention rate (84%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (65%)
• in-state freshmen (48.3%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (45%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 19.7%)
• minorities (14.5%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (6.6%)
• Hispanics (5.9%)
• Asians (5.2%)
• Blacks or African Americans (2.1%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (1.3%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• foreign students (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -16.5%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (470)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (480)
• 25th percentile SAT writing score (460)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (580)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (640)
• 75th percentile SAT writing score (600)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• average January temperature (16.0 degrees)
• dorm capacity (250)
• first-year applicants (475)
• foreign students (0)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• total 75th percentile SAT score (1,820)
• yearly for-credit students (713)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (1.87)
• students per faculty member (12)
• annual rainfall (32.8 inches)
• elevation (262 meters)

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