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.
   

Texas A&M-Galveston is in Galveston, TX, is public, grants doctorates, offers on-campus housing, requires test scores for undergrad admissions, its top major is marine biology and biological oceanography, is on the semester system, its top Masters major is water, wetlands, and marine resources management, its top Doctoral major is marine biology and biological oceanography, and enrolls from 1,000 to 4,999 students.

• research spending ($4.1M)
• average full-time teaching salary ($69,056)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($14,813)
• average undergrad student loan ($6,434)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($6,389)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($6,096)
• cost of a shared room ($5,600)
• research spending per student ($1,799)
• endowment per full-time student ($1,264)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (131.9%)
• undergrads among full-time students (94.6%)
• in-state freshmen (93.2%)
• undergrads who get financial aid (61%)
• full-time retention rate (45%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (42%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (40.6%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 38.4%)
• minorities (29.7%)
• grad students who are under 25 years old (23.9%)
• Hispanics (22.6%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (17%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (13.5%)
• Blacks or African Americans (3.4%)
• Asians (2.6%)
• foreign students (2.1%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (1.1%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (-2.1%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -27.8%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (520)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (500)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (610)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (590)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• average January temperature (53.0 degrees)
• dorm capacity (1,100)
• first-year applicants (1,534)
• foreign students (47)
• full-time grad students (76)
• full-time undergrads (1,761)
• grad students (109)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• undergrads (1,905)
• yearly for-credit students (2,292)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (0.7)
• students per faculty member (15)
• annual rainfall (43.0 inches)
• elevation (0 meters)

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