nearest others are Lake Forest College, Union Inst. & Univ, Spring Hill College, and Amridge Univ.

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.
   

Reed College is in Portland, OR, is private and nonprofit, degree-granting, a top-100 happiest school, offers on-campus housing, has a Phi Beta Kappa chapter, accepts the Common Application, requires test scores for undergrad admissions, its top major is biology/biological sciences, is on the semester system, its top Masters major is liberal arts and sciences/liberal studies, and enrolls from 1,000 to 4,999 students.

• Wall St. Journal feeder school ranking (50th place)
• USNews Liberal Arts College ranking (74th place)
• PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (115th place)
• research spending ($1.0M)
• endowment per full-time student ($294,694)
• average full-time teaching salary ($87,837)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($44,460)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($44,460)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($36,397)
• cost of a shared room ($5,960)
• average undergrad student loan ($4,393)
• research spending per student ($680)
• full-time retention rate (92%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (55.3%)
• undergrads who get financial aid (49%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (39%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 17.4%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (16%)
• minorities (15.3%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (12%)
• in-state freshmen (8.8%)
• Hispanics (7.7%)
• disabled students (7%)
• foreign students (5.9%)
• Asians (5.5%)
• Blacks or African Americans (1.8%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.3%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -14.8%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (630)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (670)
• 25th percentile SAT writing score (650)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (720)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (770)
• 75th percentile SAT writing score (740)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• average January temperature (42.2 degrees)
• dorm capacity (947)
• first-year applicants (3,131)
• foreign students (89)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (31)
• total 75th percentile SAT score (2,230)
• yearly for-credit students (1,521)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (12.27)
• students per faculty member (10)
• annual rainfall (42.8 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.16)
• elevation (42 meters)

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