What's exceptional about Roanoke College (roanoke) ?
less diversity talk; in its state
tied with Bluefield College, Mary Baldwin College, and Virginia Military Institute, all with 0.00.
Incidentally, all 4 require test scores for undergrad admissions.
outdid Randolph College (0.01), Norfolk State Univ (0.02), Marymount Univ (0.02), and Hollins Univ (0.02), and others, ending with Radford Univ (0.23).
48 out of the other 83 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for diversity and inclusion ratio, e.g., Ferrum College.
Incidentally, all 4 require test scores for undergrad admissions.
outdid Randolph College (0.01), Norfolk State Univ (0.02), Marymount Univ (0.02), and Hollins Univ (0.02), and others, ending with Radford Univ (0.23).
48 out of the other 83 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for diversity and inclusion ratio, e.g., Ferrum College.
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To measure how prominent are diversity and inclusion on a college's website, we divided the number of hits on a search query for those two words by the number of hits on a search for the query excellence OR achievement, both queries using the Google API. If the latter query does not report at least 100 hits, then the value entered is N/A. The data were collected in February 2014.
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College geographic information is from the IPEDS Directory, 2012-13 (Provisional release) by the National Center for Education Statistics (http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds).
Roanoke College is in Salem, VA, is private and nonprofit, is of the Evangelical Lutheran Church, degree-granting, accepts the Common Application, has a Phi Beta Kappa chapter, has its top major in business, offers on-campus housing, requires test scores for undergrad admissions, is on the semester system, and enrolls from 1,000 to 4,999 students.
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- USNews Liberal Arts College ranking (126th place)
- PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (676th place)
- research spending ($300K)
- average full-time teaching salary ($62,193)
- endowment per full-time student ($52,143)
- in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($34,846)
- out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($34,846)
- average grant aid to undergrads ($19,327)
- average undergrad student loan ($8,190)
- cost of a shared room ($5,154)
- research spending per student ($145)
- undergrads who get financial aid (97%)
- full-time retention rate (81%)
- undergrads who receive student loans (74%)
- ratio of female full-time freshmen (63.7%)
- in-state freshmen (45.3%)
- undergrads who get Pell grants (28%)
- tuition & fees increase over three years (18.2%)
- average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 15.9%)
- minorities (8.5%)
- disabled students (7%)
- Blacks or African Americans (3.7%)
- Hispanics (3.6%)
- undergrads who are 25 years or older (3.1%)
- foreign students (2.2%)
- Asians (0.9%)
- American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.3%)
- non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
- average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -13.7%)
- 25th percentile SAT math score (480)
- 25th percentile SAT reading score (490)
- 25th percentile SAT writing score (480)
- 75th percentile SAT math score (600)
- 75th percentile SAT reading score (600)
- 75th percentile SAT writing score (590)
- alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
- average January temperature (36.6 degrees)
- dorm capacity (1,577)
- first-year applicants (4,264)
- foreign students (47)
- full-time undergrads (1,987)
- members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
- men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
- Rhodes Scholar alumni (1)
- total 75th percentile SAT score (1,790)
- undergrads (2,060)
- yearly for-credit students (2,169)
- on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (2.31)
- students per faculty member (11)
- annual rainfall (41.2 inches)
- diversity and inclusion ratio (0.00)
- elevation (335 meters)
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