nearest others are Jackson State Univ, Southern Univ at New Orleans, U of Southern Mississippi, and U of Alabama.

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.
   

Stephen F Austin State Univ is in Nacogdoches, TX, is public, is in the Southland Conference, grants doctorates, has a nursing major, has its top Doctoral major in education, offers on-campus housing, requires test scores for undergrad admissions, its top major is multi-/interdisciplinary studies, other, is on the semester system, its top Masters major is social work, and enrolls from 10,000 to 19,999 students.

• PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (545th place)
• research spending ($9.3M)
• average full-time teaching salary ($58,758)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($14,853)
• cost of typical room and board ($8,476)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($7,727)
• average undergrad student loan ($6,682)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($6,429)
• endowment per full-time student ($4,352)
• research spending per student ($625)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (131%)
• in-state freshmen (98.9%)
• undergrads who get financial aid (87%)
• undergrads among full-time students (86.9%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (66%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (65.2%)
• full-time retention rate (63%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (50%)
• minorities (35.1%)
• grad students who are under 25 years old (27.3%)
• Blacks or African Americans (23.2%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (22.7%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 16.3%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (11.4%)
• Hispanics (10.2%)
• foreign students (1%)
• Asians (1%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.7%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -14%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (470)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (450)
• 25th percentile SAT writing score (440)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (530)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (520)
• 75th percentile SAT writing score (500)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (34)
• average January temperature (46.9 degrees)
• dorm capacity (4,898)
• first-year applicants (11,402)
• foreign students (147)
• full-time grad students (600)
• full-time undergrads (9,632)
• grad students (1,701)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• total 75th percentile SAT score (1,550)
• undergrads (11,298)
• yearly for-credit students (14,851)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (2.13)
• students per faculty member (20)
• annual rainfall (49.3 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.07)
• elevation (95 meters)

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