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.
   

Fairleigh Dickinson Univ-College at Florham is in Madison, NJ, is private and nonprofit, is in the Middle Atlantic States Athletic Corporation, grants doctorates, offers on-campus housing, has its top Masters major in education, requires test scores for undergrad admissions, its top major is psychology, is on the semester system, and enrolls from 1,000 to 4,999 students.

• PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (177th place)
• average full-time teaching salary ($73,819)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($36,352)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($36,352)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($23,968)
• average undergrad student loan ($10,138)
• cost of a shared room ($7,864)
• endowment per full-time student ($5,468)
• undergrads who get financial aid (99%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (81%)
• in-state freshmen (79.3%)
• undergrads among full-time students (78.1%)
• full-time retention rate (76%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (60.3%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (41%)
• grad students who are under 25 years old (32.2%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 26.6%)
• minorities (22.6%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (16.6%)
• disabled students (13%)
• Hispanics (9%)
• Blacks or African Americans (8.6%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (5.8%)
• Asians (4.2%)
• foreign students (3.3%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.8%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -21%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (460)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (450)
• 25th percentile SAT writing score (450)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (570)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (560)
• 75th percentile SAT writing score (560)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• average January temperature (28.4 degrees)
• dorm capacity (1,570)
• first-year applicants (4,640)
• foreign students (113)
• full-time grad students (322)
• full-time undergrads (2,213)
• grad students (671)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• total 75th percentile SAT score (1,690)
• undergrads (2,396)
• yearly for-credit students (3,386)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (0.4)
• students per faculty member (12)
• annual rainfall (50.4 inches)
• elevation (113 meters)

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