nearest others are Brown, U of Illinois at Springfield, Bradley Univ, and Maharishi U of Management.

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.
   
2. Distance calculations between two colleges use a mathematical formula for the distance on a sphere between two points.
   

North Carolina State Univ at Raleigh is in Raleigh, NC, is public, is in the Atlantic Coast Conference, research intensive, a land-grant institution, a top-100 happiest school, grants medical degrees, has a Phi Beta Kappa chapter, has had a Final Four men's basketball team, has its top Associates major in business, has its top major in business, 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 computer science, its top Doctoral major is veterinary medicine, and enrolls 20,000 or more students.

• Forbes Best Buy ranking (28th place)
• Webometrics world ranking (51st place)
• USNews MBA ranking (88th place)
• ARWU world ranking (151st place)
• PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (166th place)
• research spending ($219.0M)
• average full-time teaching salary ($92,341)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($20,953)
• endowment per full-time student ($20,547)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($9,355)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($7,788)
• average undergrad student loan ($5,565)
• cost of a shared room ($5,434)
• research spending per student ($5,378)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (169%)
• full-time retention rate (92%)
• in-state freshmen (84.7%)
• undergrads among full-time students (72.3%)
• undergrads who get financial aid (72%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (48%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (44.5%)
• grad students who are under 25 years old (29.8%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 25.1%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (22%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (16.7%)
• minorities (16.4%)
• foreign students (9.9%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (9.8%)
• Blacks or African Americans (7.8%)
• Asians (4.7%)
• Hispanics (3.4%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.5%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -20.1%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (560)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (530)
• 25th percentile SAT writing score (510)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (660)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (620)
• 75th percentile SAT writing score (610)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (148)
• average January temperature (40.5 degrees)
• dorm capacity (7,683)
• first-year applicants (20,103)
• foreign students (4,033)
• full-time grad students (5,287)
• full-time undergrads (21,821)
• grad students (9,507)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (8)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (3)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• total 75th percentile SAT score (1,890)
• undergrads (24,833)
• yearly for-credit students (40,720)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (1.27)
• students per faculty member (18)
• annual rainfall (46.0 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.18)
• elevation (124 meters)

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