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.
   

Brandeis is in Waltham, MA, is private and nonprofit, research intensive, a top-100 happiest school, a member of the American Association of Universities, offers on-campus housing, has a Phi Beta Kappa chapter, accepts the Common Application, requires test scores for undergrad admissions, its top major is economics, is on the semester system, its top Masters major is international economics, its top Doctoral major is public policy analysis, and enrolls from 5,000 to 9,999 students.

• Wall St. Journal feeder school ranking (39th place)
• PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (154th place)
• Times Higher Education world ranking (164th place)
• ARWU world ranking (201st place)
• Webometrics world ranking (632nd place)
• research spending ($44.8M)
• average full-time teaching salary ($103,941)
• endowment per full-time student ($101,984)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($43,852)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($43,852)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($33,423)
• research spending per student ($7,019)
• cost of a shared room ($6,812)
• average undergrad student loan ($5,737)
• full-time retention rate (95%)
• undergrads who get financial aid (66%)
• undergrads among full-time students (61.8%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (55%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (53.3%)
• grad students who are under 25 years old (27.7%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (23%)
• in-state freshmen (22%)
• minorities (18%)
• foreign students (15.9%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (14.3%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 10.3%)
• Asians (9.5%)
• disabled students (8%)
• Hispanics (4.4%)
• Blacks or African Americans (3.8%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (0.6%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.3%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -9.4%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (620)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (610)
• 25th percentile SAT writing score (620)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (740)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (710)
• 75th percentile SAT writing score (710)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (1)
• average January temperature (26.1 degrees)
• dorm capacity (2,897)
• first-year applicants (8,380)
• foreign students (1,012)
• full-time grad students (1,776)
• full-time undergrads (3,563)
• grad students (2,220)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (9)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (2)
• total 75th percentile SAT score (2,160)
• undergrads (3,588)
• yearly for-credit students (6,384)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (0.9)
• students per faculty member (10)
• annual rainfall (45.7 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.16)
• elevation (10 meters)

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