with U of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, Montclair State Univ, Bloomsburg U of Pennsylvania, and Gallaudet Univ.

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.
   

James Madison Univ is in Harrisonburg, VA, is public, is in the Colonial Athletic Association, a top-100 party school, grants doctorates, has a Phi Beta Kappa chapter, has a nursing major, has its top Masters major in education, offers on-campus housing, requires test scores for undergrad admissions, its top major is speech communication and rhetoric, is on the semester system, its top Doctoral major is audiology/audiologist, and enrolls from 10,000 to 19,999 students.

• Forbes Best Buy ranking (38th place)
• PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (190th place)
• Webometrics world ranking (680th place)
• research spending ($6.0M)
• average full-time teaching salary ($69,677)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($22,796)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($8,808)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($7,012)
• average undergrad student loan ($6,477)
• cost of a shared room ($4,350)
• endowment per full-time student ($3,052)
• research spending per student ($268)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (158.8%)
• full-time retention rate (91%)
• undergrads among full-time students (90.9%)
• in-state freshmen (66.6%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (61.5%)
• undergrads who get financial aid (61%)
• grad students who are under 25 years old (44.7%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (43%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (17.7%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (14%)
• minorities (12.1%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 11.5%)
• Asians (4.4%)
• Blacks or African Americans (4.1%)
• Hispanics (3.4%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (2.5%)
• foreign students (1.6%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.2%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -10.3%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (530)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (520)
• 25th percentile SAT writing score (520)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (620)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (620)
• 75th percentile SAT writing score (610)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (13)
• average January temperature (30.4 degrees)
• dorm capacity (6,213)
• first-year applicants (22,349)
• foreign students (350)
• full-time grad students (1,063)
• full-time undergrads (17,329)
• grad students (1,820)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• total 75th percentile SAT score (1,850)
• undergrads (18,107)
• yearly for-credit students (22,333)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (0.9)
• students per faculty member (16)
• annual rainfall (36.5 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.05)
• elevation (414 meters)

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