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.
   

Bryn Athyn College of the New Church is in Bryn Athyn, PA, is private and nonprofit, degree-granting, religiously affiliated, offers on-campus housing, requires test scores for undergrad admissions, its top major is multi-/interdisciplinary studies, other, is on the trimester system, its top Masters major is religion/religious studies, its top Associates major is liberal arts and sciences/liberal studies, and enrolls fewer than 1,000 students.

• endowment per full-time student ($219,767)
• research spending ($200K)
• average full-time teaching salary ($73,603)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($16,878)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($16,878)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($12,647)
• cost of typical room and board ($9,771)
• average undergrad student loan ($5,246)
• research spending per student ($898)
• undergrads who get financial aid (100%)
• full-time retention rate (83%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (63%)
• in-state freshmen (60%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (40.8%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (38.9%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (37%)
• minorities (17%)
• foreign students (13.2%)
• Blacks or African Americans (12%)
• Hispanics (2.7%)
• Asians (1.9%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 1%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.4%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -1%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (430)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (430)
• 25th percentile SAT writing score (420)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (570)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (550)
• 75th percentile SAT writing score (550)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• average January temperature (31.9 degrees)
• dorm capacity (216)
• first-year applicants (456)
• foreign students (34)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• total 75th percentile SAT score (1,670)
• yearly for-credit students (258)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (19.38)
• students per faculty member (7)
• annual rainfall (47.0 inches)
• elevation (79 meters)

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