nearest others are Oberlin, Cleveland Inst. of Music, Lawrence Univ, and Curtis Inst. of Music.

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.
   

Visible Music College is in Memphis, TN, is private and nonprofit, is Interdenominational, degree-granting, offers on-campus housing, requires test scores for undergrad admissions, its top major is music performance, is on the semester system, and enrolls fewer than 1,000 students.

• average full-time teaching salary ($35,750)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($21,000)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($21,000)
• average undergrad student loan ($6,582)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($4,316)
• cost of a shared room ($3,800)
• research spending per student ($7)
• endowment per full-time student ($0)
• research spending ($0.0K)
• undergrads who get financial aid (81%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (67%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (62%)
• full-time retention rate (42%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (33.3%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (32.9%)
• minorities (22.1%)
• in-state freshmen (20%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, 11.1%)
• Blacks or African Americans (10.7%)
• Hispanics (8.4%)
• foreign students (1.5%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (1.5%)
• Asians (1.5%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, -10%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (370)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (440)
• 25th percentile SAT writing score (450)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (520)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (640)
• 75th percentile SAT writing score (640)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• average January temperature (38.9 degrees)
• dorm capacity (108)
• first-year applicants (39)
• foreign students (2)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• total 75th percentile SAT score (1,800)
• yearly for-credit students (131)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (17.81)
• students per faculty member (10)
• elevation (74 meters)

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