nearest others are U of Missouri-St Louis, Northeastern State Univ, Illinois College of Optometry, and Salus 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.
   

Southern College of Optometry is in Memphis, TN, is private and nonprofit, grants doctorates, is on the semester system, its top Doctoral major is optometry, and enrolls fewer than 1,000 students.

• research spending ($400K)
• average full-time teaching salary ($96,162)
• endowment per full-time student ($15,641)
• research spending per student ($710)
• grad students who are under 25 years old (48.6%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 17.8%)
• minorities (15.7%)
• Asians (11.1%)
• Blacks or African Americans (3%)
• foreign students (1.6%)
• Hispanics (1.4%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.2%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -15.1%)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• average January temperature (38.9 degrees)
• foreign students (8)
• full-time grad students (498)
• grad students (498)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• yearly for-credit students (494)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (0)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.00)
• elevation (85 meters)

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