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.
   

Brigham Young-Provo is in Provo, UT, is private and nonprofit, is Latter Day Saints - Mormon, research intensive, a top-100 happiest school, has a law school, has a nursing major, offers on-campus housing, plays division I/FBS football, requires test scores for undergrad admissions, its top major is exercise physiology, is on the semester system, its top Masters major is business administration and management, its top Doctoral major is law, and enrolls 20,000 or more students.

• Forbes Best Buy ranking (9th place)
• USNews MBA ranking (30th place)
• USNews law school ranking (44th place)
• PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (121st place)
• Webometrics world ranking (181st place)
• ARWU world ranking (301st place)
• research spending ($40.8M)
• average full-time teaching salary ($99,941)
• endowment per full-time student ($27,615)
• cost of typical room and board ($7,200)
• average undergrad student loan ($5,234)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($4,710)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($4,710)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($4,300)
• research spending per student ($1,020)
• undergrads among full-time students (90.3%)
• full-time retention rate (89%)
• undergrads who get financial aid (68%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (54.8%)
• in-state freshmen (32.5%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 24.6%)
• grad students who are under 25 years old (21%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (18%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (15%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (10.8%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (9.8%)
• minorities (7.4%)
• Hispanics (4.8%)
• foreign students (4.3%)
• Asians (1.8%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.4%)
• Blacks or African Americans (0.4%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -19.7%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (590)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (580)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (690)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (690)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (134)
• average January temperature (31.0 degrees)
• dorm capacity (6,100)
• first-year applicants (12,557)
• foreign students (1,729)
• full-time grad students (2,026)
• full-time undergrads (28,338)
• grad students (3,349)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (9)
• undergrads (31,060)
• yearly for-credit students (39,996)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (0.3)
• students per faculty member (21)
• annual rainfall (19.8 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.17)
• elevation (1,419 meters)

Sources