What's exceptional about Penn State-Great Valley (sgps.psu) ?
pays profs well; in its state; top masters
outdid Pitt ($89,303), Penn State ($88,358), Villanova ($88,086), and La Salle Univ ($81,977), and others, ending with U of Phoenix-Pittsburgh Campus ($7,869).
2 out of the other 24 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for average full-time teaching salary, e.g., Penn State-World Campus.
2 out of the other 24 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for average full-time teaching salary, e.g., Penn State-World Campus.
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Teaching salaries for men and women are from the Salary Outlays for Full-time Instructional Staff by Contract Length, Gender, and Academic Rank: 2011-12 (Final/revised release) by the National Center for Education Statistics (http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds).
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College geographic information is from the IPEDS Directory, 2012-13 (Provisional release) by the National Center for Education Statistics (http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds).
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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.
Penn State-Great Valley is in Malvern, PA, is public, degree-granting, is on the semester system, its top Masters major is business administration and management, and enrolls fewer than 1,000 students.
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- average full-time teaching salary ($100,509)
- endowment per full-time student ($17,317)
- average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 24.7%)
- minorities (17%)
- Asians (8.3%)
- Blacks or African Americans (5.6%)
- Hispanics (3.1%)
- foreign students (2.3%)
- American Indians or Alaska Natives (0%)
- average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -19.8%)
- alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
- average January temperature (30.0 degrees)
- foreign students (23)
- members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
- men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
- Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
- yearly for-credit students (1,021)
- on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (0)
- annual rainfall (43.4 inches)
- elevation (83 meters)
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