with Loras College and U of West Alabama.

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.
   

Mississippi State Univ is in Mississippi State, MS, is public, is in the Southeastern Conference, research intensive, a top-100 party school, a land-grant institution, grants medical degrees, has had a Final Four men's basketball team, has its top major in education, offers on-campus housing, plays division I/FBS football, requires test scores for undergrad admissions, is on the semester system, its top Masters major is business administration and management, its top Doctoral major is veterinary medicine, and enrolls 20,000 or more students.

• Forbes Best Buy ranking (35th place)
• PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (412th place)
• Webometrics world ranking (481st place)
• research spending ($177.3M)
• average full-time teaching salary ($71,512)
• endowment per full-time student ($18,046)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($15,828)
• research spending per student ($7,723)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($6,940)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($6,264)
• average undergrad student loan ($6,100)
• cost of a shared room ($4,936)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (152.7%)
• undergrads who get financial aid (89%)
• full-time retention rate (81%)
• undergrads among full-time students (80.5%)
• in-state freshmen (64.8%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (60%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (52.3%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (36%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 34.4%)
• minorities (24.6%)
• grad students who are under 25 years old (23.4%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (21.6%)
• Blacks or African Americans (21.1%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (12%)
• foreign students (3.9%)
• Hispanics (1.8%)
• Asians (1.2%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.5%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -25.6%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (490)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (470)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (620)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (610)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (145)
• average January temperature (42.1 degrees)
• dorm capacity (4,615)
• first-year applicants (10,462)
• foreign students (887)
• full-time grad students (2,006)
• full-time undergrads (15,004)
• grad students (3,975)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (1)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (1)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (1)
• undergrads (16,390)
• yearly for-credit students (22,956)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (1.8)
• students per faculty member (19)
• annual rainfall (55.2 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.10)
• elevation (90 meters)

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