nearest others are Art Academy of Cincinnati, Maryland Inst. College of Art, Moore College of Art and Design, and U of the Arts.

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.
   

Memphis College of Art is in Memphis, TN, is private and nonprofit, degree-granting, offers on-campus housing, has its top Masters major in education, requires test scores for undergrad admissions, its top major is fine/studio arts, is on the semester system, and enrolls fewer than 1,000 students.

• average full-time teaching salary ($49,104)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($26,250)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($26,250)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($17,497)
• endowment per full-time student ($10,945)
• average undergrad student loan ($7,778)
• cost of a shared room ($6,500)
• research spending ($0.0K)
• research spending per student ($0.0)
• undergrads who get financial aid (100%)
• undergrads among full-time students (86.3%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (80%)
• full-time retention rate (71%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (68%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (66.2%)
• in-state freshmen (43.5%)
• minorities (26%)
• grad students who are under 25 years old (25.5%)
• Blacks or African Americans (18.2%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (16.2%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (11.3%)
• Hispanics (5.6%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 5.2%)
• disabled students (5%)
• foreign students (2.4%)
• Asians (2.2%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -4.9%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (450)
• 25th percentile SAT writing score (490)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (540)
• 75th percentile SAT writing score (590)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• average January temperature (38.9 degrees)
• dorm capacity (159)
• first-year applicants (725)
• foreign students (11)
• full-time grad students (23)
• full-time undergrads (316)
• grad students (55)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• undergrads (346)
• yearly for-credit students (461)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (0)
• students per faculty member (10)
• elevation (79 meters)

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