beat out by Mayo School of Health Sciences (7) and D'Youville College (8).

Incidentally, all 3 are private and nonprofit.

beat MGH Inst. of Health Professions (10), Clarke Univ (10), Wheeling Jesuit Univ (11), and College of Mount St. Joseph (11), and others, ending with Eastern Washington Univ (23).

1 out of the other 80 colleges was ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for students per faculty member, i.e., U of St Augustine for Health Sciences.

1. The student-faculty ratios are from the file total entering class, retention rates, and student-to-faculty ratio: Fall 2012 (Provisional release) as reported 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.
   

Nazareth College is in Rochester, NY, is private and nonprofit, accepts the Common Application, grants doctorates, has a nursing major, has its top Masters major in education, has its top major in nursing, offers on-campus housing, is on the semester system, its top Doctoral major is physical therapy/therapist, and enrolls from 1,000 to 4,999 students.

• PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (973rd place)
• average full-time teaching salary ($70,520)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($28,330)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($28,330)
• endowment per full-time student ($18,936)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($14,722)
• average undergrad student loan ($8,285)
• cost of a shared room ($6,448)
• research spending ($0.0K)
• research spending per student ($0.0)
• undergrads who get financial aid (100%)
• in-state freshmen (86%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (82%)
• full-time retention rate (82%)
• undergrads among full-time students (72%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (70.6%)
• grad students who are under 25 years old (46.7%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (31%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (12%)
• minorities (10.9%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (6.9%)
• Blacks or African Americans (4.7%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 4.2%)
• Hispanics (4%)
• Asians (1.8%)
• foreign students (1.7%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.4%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -4.1%)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• dorm capacity (1,295)
• first-year applicants (3,110)
• foreign students (61)
• full-time grad students (403)
• full-time undergrads (1,962)
• grad students (815)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• undergrads (2,095)
• yearly for-credit students (3,507)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (0.1)
• students per faculty member (9)
• annual rainfall (33.6 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.14)
• elevation (137 meters)

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