with Boise State Univ, Marlboro College Graduate School, U of South Carolina-Aiken, and DeVry Univ-Illinois.

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.
   

Appalachian State Univ is in Boone, NC, is public, is in the Southern Conference, a top-100 party school, grants doctorates, has a nursing major, has its top Doctoral major in education, has its top Masters major in education, offers on-campus housing, requires test scores for undergrad admissions, its top major is psychology, is on the semester system, and enrolls from 10,000 to 19,999 students.

• Forbes Best Buy ranking (32nd place)
• Webometrics world ranking (561st place)
• PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (821st place)
• research spending ($2.4M)
• average full-time teaching salary ($68,311)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($18,107)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($7,237)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($6,059)
• average undergrad student loan ($5,380)
• endowment per full-time student ($4,211)
• cost of a shared room ($3,900)
• research spending per student ($126)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (198.8%)
• undergrads among full-time students (89.3%)
• in-state freshmen (89.1%)
• full-time retention rate (88%)
• undergrads who get financial aid (65%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (53.1%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (46%)
• grad students who are under 25 years old (31.9%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (21%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (19.8%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 14.9%)
• minorities (7.8%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (7.4%)
• Hispanics (3.1%)
• Blacks or African Americans (3.1%)
• Asians (1.3%)
• foreign students (1.1%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.3%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -12.9%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (530)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (520)
• 25th percentile SAT writing score (500)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (620)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (610)
• 75th percentile SAT writing score (590)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (34)
• average January temperature (31.2 degrees)
• dorm capacity (5,820)
• first-year applicants (12,959)
• foreign students (216)
• full-time grad students (828)
• full-time undergrads (14,837)
• grad students (1,877)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• total 75th percentile SAT score (1,820)
• undergrads (15,712)
• yearly for-credit students (19,089)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (1.0)
• students per faculty member (16)
• annual rainfall (52.7 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.13)
• elevation (950 meters)

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