trailed La Sierra Univ (1,580), U of Minnesota-Duluth (1,740), Lesley Univ (1,770), and Montana State Univ (1,870), and others.

7 out of the other 12 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for total 75th percentile SAT score, e.g., Widener 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. The total 75th-percentile SAT score is calculated as the sum of the math, reading, and writing 75th-percentile scores, using college SAT data from the Institutional Characteristics Data File 2012-2013 (Provisional Release) as reported by the National Center for Education Statistics (http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds). Note that only about 41% of all colleges in this dataset reported at least one numeric SAT score.
   

Rhode Island College is in Providence, RI, is public, accepts the Common Application, grants doctorates, has a nursing major, has its top Doctoral major in education, has its top major in nursing, offers on-campus housing, requires test scores for undergrad admissions, is on the semester system, its top Masters major is social work, and enrolls from 5,000 to 9,999 students.

• PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (493rd place)
• research spending ($11.2M)
• average full-time teaching salary ($65,316)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($18,296)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($7,598)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($6,163)
• average undergrad student loan ($5,624)
• cost of a shared room ($5,424)
• endowment per full-time student ($2,161)
• research spending per student ($1,055)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (140.8%)
• undergrads who get financial aid (87%)
• undergrads among full-time students (85.2%)
• in-state freshmen (78.5%)
• full-time retention rate (75%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (68.1%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (68%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (46%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (23.9%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (18.1%)
• minorities (17.9%)
• grad students who are under 25 years old (15.7%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 11.1%)
• Hispanics (8.3%)
• disabled students (7%)
• Blacks or African Americans (7%)
• Asians (2.3%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.3%)
• foreign students (0.1%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -10%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (410)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (420)
• 25th percentile SAT writing score (420)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (520)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (520)
• 75th percentile SAT writing score (520)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• average January temperature (29.2 degrees)
• dorm capacity (1,194)
• first-year applicants (3,349)
• foreign students (13)
• full-time grad students (208)
• full-time undergrads (5,533)
• grad students (1,316)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• total 75th percentile SAT score (1,560)
• undergrads (7,553)
• yearly for-credit students (10,631)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (0.4)
• students per faculty member (14)
• annual rainfall (47.2 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.37)
• elevation (31 meters)

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