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.
   

UC Merced is in Merced, CA, is public, more than 50% Black, Hispanic, Asian, American Indian, or Alaska Native, grants doctorates, offers on-campus housing, requires test scores for undergrad admissions, its top major is biology/biological sciences, is on the semester system, its top Masters major is cell/cellular and molecular biology, its top Doctoral major is physical sciences, other and environmental science, and enrolls from 5,000 to 9,999 students.

• Webometrics world ranking (1,197th place)
• research spending ($12.9M)
• average full-time teaching salary ($72,555)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($35,948)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($18,063)
• cost of typical room and board ($14,272)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($13,070)
• average undergrad student loan ($4,868)
• research spending per student ($2,388)
• endowment per full-time student ($1,130)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (175%)
• in-state freshmen (100%)
• undergrads among full-time students (94.3%)
• undergrads who get financial aid (90%)
• full-time retention rate (83%)
• minorities (70.4%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (63%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (59%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (52.4%)
• Hispanics (35.8%)
• Asians (27.8%)
• grad students who are under 25 years old (20.4%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 18.8%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (13%)
• Blacks or African Americans (6.5%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (4%)
• foreign students (2.5%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.3%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -15.8%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (460)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (440)
• 25th percentile SAT writing score (440)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (580)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (550)
• 75th percentile SAT writing score (550)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• average January temperature (45.8 degrees)
• dorm capacity (1,318)
• first-year applicants (15,208)
• foreign students (135)
• full-time grad students (327)
• full-time undergrads (5,363)
• grad students (329)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• total 75th percentile SAT score (1,680)
• undergrads (5,431)
• yearly for-credit students (5,399)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (0.1)
• students per faculty member (21)
• annual rainfall (13.0 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.15)
• elevation (83 meters)

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