nearest others are UCSD, American Univ, Inst. of World Politics, and Johns Hopkins.

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.
   
2. Distance calculations between two colleges use a mathematical formula for the distance on a sphere between two points.
   

St. Mary's Univ is in San Antonio, TX, is private and nonprofit, is Roman Catholic, more than 50% Black, Hispanic, Asian, American Indian, or Alaska Native, grants doctorates, has a law school, offers on-campus housing, requires test scores for undergrad admissions, its top major is biology/biological sciences, is on the semester system, its top Masters major is international relations and affairs, its top Doctoral major is law, and enrolls from 1,000 to 4,999 students.

• USNews law school ranking (140th place)
• PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (145th place)
• research spending ($500K)
• average full-time teaching salary ($83,694)
• endowment per full-time student ($35,522)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($24,186)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($24,186)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($18,078)
• average undergrad student loan ($6,986)
• cost of a shared room ($4,856)
• research spending per student ($105)
• undergrads who get financial aid (98%)
• in-state freshmen (91.1%)
• full-time retention rate (77%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (75%)
• undergrads among full-time students (61.2%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (58.9%)
• minorities (57.9%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (57%)
• Hispanics (51.2%)
• grad students who are under 25 years old (26.6%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 11.4%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (10.7%)
• foreign students (9.6%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (9.2%)
• Blacks or African Americans (3.7%)
• Asians (2.7%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.3%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -10.2%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (480)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (460)
• 25th percentile SAT writing score (450)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (580)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (560)
• 75th percentile SAT writing score (550)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (3)
• average January temperature (51.8 degrees)
• dorm capacity (1,402)
• first-year applicants (5,581)
• foreign students (435)
• full-time grad students (1,083)
• full-time undergrads (2,295)
• grad students (1,529)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• total 75th percentile SAT score (1,690)
• undergrads (2,412)
• yearly for-credit students (4,543)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (0.9)
• students per faculty member (12)
• annual rainfall (32.3 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.00)
• elevation (221 meters)

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