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What's exceptional about Ferrum College (ferrum) ?

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less student dense; many undergrads

Only Ferrum College has both as many full-time undergrads (1,487) and as low a local student density.

In other words, any other colleges with as many full-time undergrads will have a higher local student density, and any other colleges with as low a local student density will have fewer full-time undergrads.



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closest are Wheaton College (1,613), Bridgewater College (1,748), Berea College (1,601), and Grinnell College (1,615), ending with Arizona State (49,945).

229 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for full-time undergrads.

References

  1. Information on numbers and ages of the undergrad and graduate student body is from the file enrollment by age, gender, attendance status, and level of student: Fall 2012 (Provisional release) as reported by the National Center for Education Statistics (http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds).
  2. Student density refers to the total number of yearly for-credit students within a 5-mile radius, using enrollment data from the 12-month Unduplicated Head Count Data File, 2011-12 (Provisional release) and latitude/longitude data from the IPEDS Directory, 2012-13 (Provisional release) by the National Center for Education Statistics (http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds).

Profile

Ferrum College is in Ferrum, VA, is private and nonprofit, is United Methodist, degree-granting, offers on-campus housing, has its top major in business, requires test scores for undergrad admissions, is on the semester system, and enrolls from 1,000 to 4,999 students.

  • average full-time teaching salary ($50,699)
  • endowment per full-time student ($27,650)
  • in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($27,425)
  • out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($27,425)
  • average grant aid to undergrads ($19,696)
  • cost of typical room and board ($9,130)
  • average undergrad student loan ($7,427)
  • research spending ($0.0K)
  • research spending per student ($0.0)
  • undergrads who get financial aid (100%)
  • undergrads who receive student loans (99%)
  • in-state freshmen (72.5%)
  • undergrads who get Pell grants (63%)
  • full-time retention rate (53%)
  • ratio of female full-time freshmen (40.1%)
  • minorities (38.4%)
  • Blacks or African Americans (33.8%)
  • tuition & fees increase over three years (16.4%)
  • average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 12%)
  • disabled students (6%)
  • Hispanics (3.9%)
  • undergrads who are 25 years or older (2.3%)
  • foreign students (1.1%)
  • American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.4%)
  • Asians (0.3%)
  • non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
  • average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -10.7%)
  • 25th percentile SAT math score (400)
  • 25th percentile SAT reading score (400)
  • 25th percentile SAT writing score (380)
  • 75th percentile SAT math score (490)
  • 75th percentile SAT reading score (500)
  • 75th percentile SAT writing score (470)
  • alumni who played in the National Football League (13)
  • average January temperature (35.6 degrees)
  • dorm capacity (1,412)
  • first-year applicants (3,146)
  • foreign students (17)
  • full-time undergrads (1,487)
  • members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
  • men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
  • Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
  • total 75th percentile SAT score (1,460)
  • undergrads (1,510)
  • yearly for-credit students (1,572)
  • on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (6.79)
  • students per faculty member (16)
  • annual rainfall (47.1 inches)
  • elevation (434 meters)

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