with Western Michigan Univ, U of North Carolina at Greensboro, Johnson & Wales Univ-Providence, and Saint Cloud State Univ.

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.
   

Jackson State Univ is in Jackson, MS, is public, is in the Southwestern Athletic Conference, research intensive, historically black, offers on-campus housing, has its top Doctoral major in education, requires test scores for undergrad admissions, its top major is multi-/interdisciplinary studies, other, is on the semester system, its top Masters major is social work, and enrolls from 5,000 to 9,999 students.

• Forbes Best Buy ranking (61st place)
• PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (962nd place)
• research spending ($31.6M)
• average full-time teaching salary ($60,835)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($14,576)
• average undergrad student loan ($8,731)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($7,507)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($5,888)
• cost of a shared room ($4,032)
• research spending per student ($2,941)
• endowment per full-time student ($1,833)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (147.6%)
• undergrads who get financial aid (96%)
• minorities (91.4%)
• Blacks or African Americans (89.9%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (82%)
• undergrads among full-time students (75.7%)
• full-time retention rate (73%)
• in-state freshmen (63%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (56.8%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (34.7%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (28.3%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (25%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 14.1%)
• grad students who are under 25 years old (11.5%)
• Asians (0.8%)
• Hispanics (0.5%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.2%)
• foreign students (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -12.4%)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (92)
• average January temperature (46.6 degrees)
• dorm capacity (2,550)
• first-year applicants (10,141)
• foreign students (0)
• full-time grad students (797)
• full-time undergrads (5,506)
• grad students (2,144)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• undergrads (6,675)
• yearly for-credit students (10,736)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (5.43)
• students per faculty member (18)
• annual rainfall (54.3 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.01)
• elevation (97 meters)

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