nearest others are Southern College of Optometry, Illinois College of Optometry, Northeastern State Univ, and Salus Univ.

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.
   

U of Missouri-St Louis is in Saint Louis, MO, is public, research intensive, has a nursing major, has its top major in business, offers on-campus housing, requires test scores for undergrad admissions, is on the semester system, its top Masters major is business/commerce, its top Doctoral major is optometry, and enrolls from 10,000 to 19,999 students.

• PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (709th place)
• Webometrics world ranking (874th place)
• research spending ($12.7M)
• average full-time teaching salary ($73,019)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($22,883)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($10,576)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($9,314)
• average undergrad student loan ($5,696)
• cost of a shared room ($5,200)
• endowment per full-time student ($5,092)
• research spending per student ($602)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (145.7%)
• undergrads who get financial aid (93%)
• in-state freshmen (81%)
• undergrads among full-time students (79.8%)
• full-time retention rate (78%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (58.9%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (49%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (42%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (28.3%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 26.5%)
• grad students who are under 25 years old (25.2%)
• minorities (21.5%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (16.2%)
• Blacks or African Americans (15.5%)
• Asians (3.6%)
• foreign students (3.4%)
• Hispanics (2.1%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.3%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -21%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (480)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (660)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• average January temperature (31.8 degrees)
• dorm capacity (1,277)
• first-year applicants (1,930)
• foreign students (723)
• full-time grad students (1,002)
• full-time undergrads (6,069)
• grad students (3,370)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (1)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• undergrads (13,335)
• yearly for-credit students (21,049)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (0.8)
• students per faculty member (16)
• annual rainfall (41.0 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.12)
• elevation (186 meters)

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