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.
   

Penn State is in Univ Park, PA, is public, is in the Big Ten Conference, research intensive, a top-100 party school, a land-grant institution, a member of the American Association of Universities, has a Phi Beta Kappa chapter, has a hospital, has a law school, has a nursing major, has had a Final Four men's basketball team, offers on-campus housing, plays division I/FBS football, requires test scores for undergrad admissions, its top major is information science/studies, is on the semester system, its top Masters major is business administration and management, its top Doctoral major is law, its top Associates major is liberal arts and sciences/liberal studies, and enrolls 20,000 or more students.

• Webometrics world ranking (21st place)
• Times Higher Education world ranking (49th place)
• USNews MBA ranking (49th place)
• ARWU world ranking (54th place)
• USNews law school ranking (64th place)
• PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (206th place)
• research spending ($693.4M)
• average full-time teaching salary ($88,358)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($28,746)
• endowment per full-time student ($28,103)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($16,444)
• research spending per student ($14,087)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($8,168)
• average undergrad student loan ($7,869)
• cost of a shared room ($4,910)
• full-time retention rate (92%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (74.8%)
• undergrads who get financial aid (67%)
• in-state freshmen (57.4%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (51%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (48.7%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 35.8%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (15%)
• minorities (13.9%)
• foreign students (11.1%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (10.8%)
• Asians (4.8%)
• Hispanics (4.7%)
• Blacks or African Americans (4.3%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.1%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -26.3%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (560)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (530)
• 25th percentile SAT writing score (540)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (670)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (630)
• 75th percentile SAT writing score (640)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (338)
• average January temperature (27.2 degrees)
• dorm capacity (13,433)
• first-year applicants (45,502)
• foreign students (5,455)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (14)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (1)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (2)
• total 75th percentile SAT score (1,940)
• yearly for-credit students (49,223)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (1.54)
• students per faculty member (17)
• annual rainfall (39.6 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.17)
• elevation (353 meters)

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