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.
   

New England Culinary Inst. is in Montpelier, VT, is private and for-profit, open admission, degree-granting, has a culinary program, offers on-campus housing, its top major is restaurant/food services management, its top Associates major is culinary arts/chef training, and enrolls fewer than 1,000 students.

• average full-time teaching salary ($49,452)
• average undergrad student loan ($14,272)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($8,305)
• cost of a shared room ($6,000)
• endowment per full-time student ($0)
• undergrads who get financial aid (82%)
• full-time retention rate (77%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (74%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (42%)
• in-state freshmen (25.9%)
• disabled students (15%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 8.8%)
• minorities (8.2%)
• Hispanics (3.1%)
• Blacks or African Americans (2.9%)
• foreign students (2.2%)
• Asians (1.8%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.4%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -8.1%)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• average January temperature (15.8 degrees)
• dorm capacity (172)
• foreign students (15)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• yearly for-credit students (685)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (3.89)
• students per faculty member (15)
• annual rainfall (42.4 inches)
• elevation (215 meters)

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