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What's exceptional about Longwood Univ (longwood) ?

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many dorms; for its size

Longwood Univ has the 5th-highest dorm capacity (2,972) of the 1,134 colleges that enroll from 1,000 to 4,999 students. Those 2,972 represent 0.3% of the total across the 1,134 colleges, whose average is 1,019, and 0.1% among all colleges.



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beat out by Bob Jones Univ (4,622), High Point Univ (3,810), Providence College (3,088), and Bucknell (3,017).

Incidentally, all 5 offer a meal plan.

beat Wesleyan Univ (2,920), Hampton Univ (2,900), Bryant Univ (2,882), and Roger Williams Univ (2,860), and others, ending with Centralia College (22).

296 out of the other 1,133 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for dorm capacity, e.g., Inter American U of Puerto Rico-Arecibo.

References

  1. Information on dorm capacity and on-campus housing is from the Institutional Characteristics Data File 2012-2013 (Provisional Release) as reported by the National Center for Education Statistics (http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds).
  2. The college's size is from the IPEDS Directory, 2012-13 (Provisional release) by the National Center for Education Statistics (http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds).

Profile

Longwood Univ is in Farmville, VA, is public, degree-granting, a top-100 party school, offers on-campus housing, has its top Masters major in education, requires test scores for undergrad admissions, its top major is liberal arts and sciences/liberal studies, is on the semester system, and enrolls from 1,000 to 4,999 students.

  • PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (946th place)
  • average full-time teaching salary ($59,969)
  • out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($23,220)
  • in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($10,890)
  • endowment per full-time student ($10,874)
  • average grant aid to undergrads ($6,575)
  • average undergrad student loan ($6,431)
  • cost of a shared room ($5,524)
  • research spending per student ($3)
  • research spending ($0.0K)
  • non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (113.2%)
  • in-state freshmen (95.7%)
  • undergrads among full-time students (90.1%)
  • full-time retention rate (81%)
  • undergrads who get financial aid (71%)
  • ratio of female full-time freshmen (66.4%)
  • undergrads who receive student loans (59%)
  • tuition & fees increase over three years (30.2%)
  • grad students who are under 25 years old (27.6%)
  • undergrads who get Pell grants (21%)
  • minorities (11.9%)
  • Blacks or African Americans (7.2%)
  • disabled students (6%)
  • undergrads who are 25 years or older (4.4%)
  • average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 3.6%)
  • Hispanics (3.4%)
  • foreign students (1.1%)
  • Asians (1%)
  • American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.3%)
  • average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -3.5%)
  • 25th percentile SAT math score (470)
  • 25th percentile SAT reading score (470)
  • 75th percentile SAT math score (550)
  • 75th percentile SAT reading score (560)
  • alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
  • average January temperature (35.3 degrees)
  • dorm capacity (2,972)
  • first-year applicants (4,167)
  • foreign students (58)
  • full-time grad students (125)
  • full-time undergrads (3,963)
  • grad students (479)
  • members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
  • men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
  • Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
  • undergrads (4,355)
  • yearly for-credit students (5,450)
  • on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (1.0)
  • students per faculty member (17)
  • annual rainfall (43.8 inches)
  • diversity and inclusion ratio (0.22)
  • elevation (117 meters)

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