nearest others are Jacksonville State Univ, Cheyney U of Pennsylvania, Indiana Univ-Kokomo, and CUNY John Jay College of Criminal Justice.

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.
   

College of Charleston is in Charleston, SC, is public, degree-granting, a top-100 party school, offers on-campus housing, has its top major in business, requires test scores for undergrad admissions, is on the semester system, its top Masters major is public administration, and enrolls from 10,000 to 19,999 students.

• PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (663rd place)
• Webometrics world ranking (961st place)
• research spending ($5.6M)
• average full-time teaching salary ($65,965)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($25,304)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($9,918)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($8,767)
• cost of a shared room ($7,111)
• average undergrad student loan ($6,326)
• endowment per full-time student ($5,563)
• research spending per student ($382)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (155.1%)
• undergrads among full-time students (89.6%)
• full-time retention rate (81%)
• undergrads who get financial aid (74%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (65.2%)
• in-state freshmen (50.1%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (46%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (21%)
• grad students who are under 25 years old (17.3%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (15.8%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 14.4%)
• minorities (11.2%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (8.6%)
• disabled students (8%)
• Blacks or African Americans (6.7%)
• Hispanics (3%)
• Asians (1.3%)
• foreign students (1.1%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.2%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -12.6%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (540)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (540)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (630)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (650)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• average January temperature (49.7 degrees)
• dorm capacity (3,374)
• first-year applicants (11,086)
• foreign students (163)
• full-time grad students (306)
• full-time undergrads (9,760)
• grad students (1,217)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (4)
• undergrads (10,506)
• yearly for-credit students (14,655)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (0.4)
• students per faculty member (16)
• annual rainfall (44.4 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.11)
• elevation (4 meters)

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