outdid U of Nevada-Reno ($8,073), U of Bridgeport ($8,021), Fairleigh Dickinson Univ-Metropolitan Campus ($7,707), and Murray State Univ ($7,060), and 28 others, ending with West Virginia Univ at Parkersburg ($1,619).

1. The data on undergrad loans, financial aid, and Pell grants are from the Student Financial Aid Data File, 2011-12 (Provisional release) as reported by the National Center for Education Statistics (http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds).
   
2. 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.
   

Shepherd Univ is in Shepherdstown, WV, is public, is in the West Virginia Intercollegiate Athletic Conf, degree-granting, has a nursing major, offers on-campus housing, requires test scores for undergrad admissions, its top major is general studies, is on the semester system, its top Masters major is business administration and management, and enrolls from 1,000 to 4,999 students.

• PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (882nd place)
• average full-time teaching salary ($61,778)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($15,136)
• average undergrad student loan ($9,273)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($5,834)
• endowment per full-time student ($5,795)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($5,787)
• cost of a shared room ($4,654)
• research spending ($0.0K)
• research spending per student ($0)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (159.4%)
• undergrads among full-time students (96.4%)
• undergrads who get financial aid (88%)
• full-time retention rate (63%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (62%)
• in-state freshmen (61.9%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (54.7%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (33%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (23.9%)
• grad students who are under 25 years old (19.2%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (11.5%)
• minorities (11.5%)
• disabled students (7%)
• Blacks or African Americans (6.4%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 4.6%)
• Hispanics (2.8%)
• Asians (1.6%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.7%)
• foreign students (0.3%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -4.4%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (450)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (450)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (550)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (560)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (3)
• average January temperature (30.8 degrees)
• dorm capacity (1,302)
• first-year applicants (2,056)
• foreign students (17)
• full-time grad students (61)
• full-time undergrads (3,484)
• grad students (156)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• undergrads (4,170)
• yearly for-credit students (5,229)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (1.34)
• students per faculty member (18)
• annual rainfall (42.1 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.13)
• elevation (119 meters)

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