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.
   

Furman Univ is in Greenville, SC, is private and nonprofit, is in the Southern Conference, degree-granting, a top-100 happiest school, offers on-campus housing, has a Phi Beta Kappa chapter, accepts the Common Application, its top major is political science and government, is on the semester system, its top Masters major is elementary and middle school administration/principalship, and enrolls from 1,000 to 4,999 students.

• USNews Liberal Arts College ranking (52nd place)
• PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (296th place)
• research spending ($1.9M)
• endowment per full-time student ($180,179)
• average full-time teaching salary ($79,939)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($41,532)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($41,532)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($20,814)
• average undergrad student loan ($8,552)
• cost of a shared room ($5,704)
• research spending per student ($585)
• undergrads among full-time students (94.4%)
• undergrads who get financial aid (88%)
• full-time retention rate (88%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (43.4%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (34%)
• grad students who are under 25 years old (32.1%)
• in-state freshmen (26.2%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (13.3%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (12%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 11.6%)
• minorities (10%)
• disabled students (9%)
• Blacks or African Americans (5.5%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (4%)
• Hispanics (2.7%)
• Asians (1.7%)
• foreign students (1.6%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.1%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -10.4%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (560)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (560)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (670)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (650)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (20)
• dorm capacity (2,450)
• first-year applicants (6,035)
• foreign students (51)
• full-time grad students (60)
• full-time undergrads (2,623)
• grad students (162)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (5)
• undergrads (2,753)
• yearly for-credit students (3,166)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (4.63)
• students per faculty member (11)
• annual rainfall (55.0 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (3.99)
• elevation (315 meters)

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