nearest others are Grambling State Univ, Southern Univ and A&M College, Alabama State Univ, and New Mexico State Univ.

1. College geographic information is from the IPEDS Directory, 2012-13 (Provisional release) by the National Center for Education Statistics (http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds).
   
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.
   

Sam Houston State Univ is in Huntsville, TX, is public, is in the Southland Conference, research intensive, has its top Doctoral major in education, has its top major in criminal justice, offers on-campus housing, requires test scores for undergrad admissions, is on the semester system, its top Masters major is library and information science, and enrolls from 10,000 to 19,999 students.

• PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (412th place)
• Webometrics world ranking (1,187th place)
• research spending ($8.6M)
• average full-time teaching salary ($69,416)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($15,032)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($6,608)
• average undergrad student loan ($6,080)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($6,021)
• cost of a shared room ($4,360)
• endowment per full-time student ($3,543)
• research spending per student ($428)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (127.5%)
• in-state freshmen (97.3%)
• undergrads who get financial aid (86%)
• undergrads among full-time students (84.6%)
• full-time retention rate (75%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (63%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (61.1%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (44%)
• minorities (33.8%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (24.8%)
• grad students who are under 25 years old (21.8%)
• Hispanics (16.6%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 16.3%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (16.1%)
• Blacks or African Americans (15.5%)
• foreign students (1.9%)
• Asians (1.3%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.4%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -14%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (470)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (450)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (550)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (540)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (23)
• average January temperature (49.4 degrees)
• dorm capacity (3,297)
• first-year applicants (9,315)
• foreign students (378)
• full-time grad students (785)
• full-time undergrads (12,968)
• grad students (2,850)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• undergrads (15,611)
• yearly for-credit students (20,125)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (0.2)
• students per faculty member (25)
• annual rainfall (49.1 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.04)
• elevation (111 meters)

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