nearest others are Mount Mary College, Louisiana State Univ Health Sciences Center-Shreveport, Shawnee State Univ, and Ithaca College.

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.
   

U of Puget Sound is in Tacoma, WA, is private and nonprofit, is in the Northwest Conference, accepts the Common Application, grants doctorates, 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, its top Masters major is occupational therapy/therapist, its top Doctoral major is physical therapy/therapist, and enrolls from 1,000 to 4,999 students.

• USNews Liberal Arts College ranking (76th place)
• PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (256th place)
• research spending ($600K)
• endowment per full-time student ($92,732)
• average full-time teaching salary ($79,961)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($40,250)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($40,250)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($18,494)
• average undergrad student loan ($6,700)
• cost of a shared room ($5,740)
• research spending per student ($179)
• undergrads who get financial aid (97%)
• undergrads among full-time students (90.4%)
• full-time retention rate (86%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (61%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (52.9%)
• grad students who are under 25 years old (40%)
• in-state freshmen (21.2%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (20%)
• disabled students (16%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 13.6%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (13%)
• minorities (12.1%)
• Hispanics (5.6%)
• Asians (5.3%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (1.9%)
• Blacks or African Americans (1%)
• foreign students (0.6%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.2%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -12%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (580)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (570)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (660)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (688)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (2)
• average January temperature (42.8 degrees)
• dorm capacity (1,611)
• first-year applicants (6,878)
• foreign students (18)
• full-time grad students (236)
• full-time undergrads (2,555)
• grad students (275)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (2)
• undergrads (2,578)
• yearly for-credit students (3,085)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (5.19)
• students per faculty member (12)
• annual rainfall (39.2 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.24)
• elevation (113 meters)

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