nearest others are Sewanee-U of the South, Hollins Univ, U of Mary Washington, and Kenyon 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.
   

Ave Maria Univ is in Ave Maria, FL, is private and nonprofit, is Roman Catholic, grants doctorates, offers on-campus housing, requires test scores for undergrad admissions, its top major is English language and literature, is on the semester system, its top Masters major is theology/theological studies, its top Doctoral major is theology/theological studies, and enrolls fewer than 1,000 students.

• average full-time teaching salary ($63,286)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($21,496)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($21,496)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($14,505)
• average undergrad student loan ($6,283)
• cost of a shared room ($4,961)
• endowment per full-time student ($2,734)
• research spending ($0.0K)
• research spending per student ($0.0)
• undergrads who get financial aid (100%)
• full-time retention rate (72%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (58%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (43.5%)
• in-state freshmen (41.5%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (35%)
• minorities (22.3%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (21.1%)
• Hispanics (15.7%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 11%)
• disabled students (4%)
• Blacks or African Americans (3.9%)
• Asians (2.3%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.4%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• foreign students (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -9.9%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (460)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (470)
• 25th percentile SAT writing score (450)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (583)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (610)
• 75th percentile SAT writing score (593)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• dorm capacity (980)
• first-year applicants (1,242)
• foreign students (0)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• total 75th percentile SAT score (1,786)
• yearly for-credit students (898)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (3.34)
• students per faculty member (15)
• annual rainfall (50.7 inches)
• elevation (6 meters)

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