nearest others are Greenville College, Colorado Christian Univ, Southern Nazarene Univ, and Bluffton Univ.

1. The regions of the country are divided into New England, Mid Atlantic, Southeast, Southwest, Far West, Rocky Mountains, Great Lakes, Plains, and Outlying Areas.
   
2. 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.
   

U of Sioux Falls is in Sioux Falls, SD, is private and nonprofit, is in the Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference, is American Baptist, degree-granting, has a nursing major, has an emergency medical technology program, offers on-campus housing, requires test scores for undergrad admissions, its top major is organizational behavior studies, is on a four-one-four calendar, its top Masters major is business administration and management, its top Associates major is medical radiologic technology/science - radiation therapist, and enrolls from 1,000 to 4,999 students.

• average full-time teaching salary ($47,306)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($23,740)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($23,740)
• endowment per full-time student ($15,928)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($14,062)
• average undergrad student loan ($8,335)
• cost of a shared room ($3,190)
• research spending ($0.0K)
• research spending per student ($0.0)
• undergrads who get financial aid (99%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (81%)
• full-time retention rate (65%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (53%)
• in-state freshmen (49.4%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (31%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (17%)
• minorities (5%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, 4.1%)
• Blacks or African Americans (2.5%)
• Hispanics (1.4%)
• Asians (0.6%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.5%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• foreign students (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, -3.9%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (490)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (400)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (540)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (490)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (2)
• average January temperature (16.6 degrees)
• dorm capacity (606)
• first-year applicants (1,964)
• foreign students (0)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (1)
• yearly for-credit students (1,851)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (3.24)
• students per faculty member (15)
• annual rainfall (26.4 inches)
• elevation (450 meters)

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