nearest others are Iona College, U of North Florida, U of West Florida, and Florida Gulf Coast 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.
   
2. Distance calculations between two colleges use a mathematical formula for the distance on a sphere between two points.
   

Virginia State Univ is in Petersburg, VA, is public, is in the Central Intercollegiate Athletic Assoc, historically black, a land-grant institution, grants doctorates, has its top Associates major in nursing, has its top Doctoral major in education, has its top Masters major in education, offers on-campus housing, requires test scores for undergrad admissions, its top major is mass communication/media studies, is on the semester system, and enrolls from 5,000 to 9,999 students.

• PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (915th place)
• research spending ($5.9M)
• average full-time teaching salary ($67,147)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($16,388)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($7,420)
• average undergrad student loan ($7,412)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($6,124)
• cost of a shared room ($5,816)
• endowment per full-time student ($5,549)
• research spending per student ($869)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (120.9%)
• undergrads who get financial aid (92%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (92%)
• undergrads among full-time students (89.7%)
• minorities (84.5%)
• Blacks or African Americans (82.3%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (67%)
• full-time retention rate (65%)
• in-state freshmen (64.7%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (61.8%)
• grad students who are under 25 years old (18.3%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (13%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 10.5%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (10.1%)
• Hispanics (1.5%)
• Asians (0.4%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.3%)
• foreign students (0.1%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -9.5%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (390)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (390)
• 25th percentile SAT writing score (370)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (460)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (460)
• 75th percentile SAT writing score (450)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (8)
• average January temperature (37.8 degrees)
• dorm capacity (3,048)
• first-year applicants (6,151)
• foreign students (8)
• full-time grad students (295)
• full-time undergrads (5,082)
• grad students (638)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• total 75th percentile SAT score (1,370)
• undergrads (5,570)
• yearly for-credit students (6,757)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (1.58)
• students per faculty member (18)
• annual rainfall (43.9 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.03)
• elevation (22 meters)

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