What's exceptional about Shorter Univ-College of Adult & Professional Programs (shorter.edu/capp) ?
needy students; religious tie; grad school; top major
Shorter Univ-College of Adult & Professional Programs has the most undergrads who get Pell grants (87%) of all the 131 colleges that are religiously affiliated, offer graduate degrees, and whose top major is business administration and management. That 87% compares to an average of 41.3% across the 131 colleges.
outdid Shaw Univ (82%), Chowan Univ (74%), Huston-Tillotson Univ (73%), and Mid-Continent Univ (71%), and others, ending with High Point Univ (14%).
5 out of the other 130 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for undergrads who get Pell grants, e.g., U of Fort Lauderdale.
5 out of the other 130 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for undergrads who get Pell grants, e.g., U of Fort Lauderdale.
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Information on types of degree granted is from the IPEDS Directory, 2012-13 (Provisional release) by the National Center for Education Statistics (http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds).
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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).
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The college's religious affiliation (if any) is from the Institutional Characteristics Data File 2012-2013 (Provisional Release) as reported by the National Center for Education Statistics (http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds).
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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.
Shorter Univ-College of Adult & Professional Programs is in Atlanta, GA, is private and nonprofit, is Southern Baptist, open admission, degree-granting, more than 50% Black, Hispanic, Asian, American Indian, or Alaska Native, has its top major in business, its top Masters major is business administration and management, its top Associates major is general studies, and enrolls from 1,000 to 4,999 students.
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- average full-time teaching salary ($52,472)
- in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($9,000)
- out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($9,000)
- average undergrad student loan ($8,320)
- average grant aid to undergrads ($4,821)
- endowment per full-time student ($0)
- research spending ($0.0K)
- research spending per student ($0.0)
- undergrads who get financial aid (100%)
- in-state freshmen (100%)
- undergrads who receive student loans (91%)
- undergrads who get Pell grants (87%)
- minorities (69.4%)
- Blacks or African Americans (63.8%)
- full-time retention rate (53%)
- average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 5.5%)
- tuition & fees increase over three years (4.1%)
- American Indians or Alaska Natives (2.9%)
- Hispanics (2.6%)
- foreign students (0.2%)
- Asians (0.1%)
- non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
- average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -5.2%)
- alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
- foreign students (5)
- members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
- men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
- Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
- yearly for-credit students (2,226)
- on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (0.2)
- students per faculty member (24)
- annual rainfall (51.5 inches)
- elevation (276 meters)
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