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.
   

Stanford is in Stanford, CA, is private and nonprofit, is in the Pacific-12 Conference, research intensive, a top-100 happiest school, a member of the American Association of Universities, accepts the Common Application, has a Phi Beta Kappa chapter, has a hospital, has a law school, has had a Final Four men's basketball team, offers a Doctor of Medicine degree, offers on-campus housing, plays division I/FBS football, requires test scores for undergrad admissions, was attended by a U.S. President, its top major is human biology, is on the quarter system, its top Masters major is business administration and management, its top Doctoral major is law, and enrolls from 10,000 to 19,999 students.

• USNews MBA ranking (1st place)
• ARWU world ranking (2nd place)
• USNews law school ranking (2nd place)
• Webometrics world ranking (3rd place)
• Wall St. Journal feeder school ranking (4th place)
• Times Higher Education world ranking (4th place)
• PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (8th place)
• research spending ($848.1M)
• endowment per full-time student ($1,124,105)
• average full-time teaching salary ($135,037)
• research spending per student ($42,478)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($42,225)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($42,225)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($38,522)
• cost of typical room and board ($12,721)
• average undergrad student loan ($6,589)
• full-time retention rate (98%)
• undergrads who get financial aid (70%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (47.3%)
• in-state freshmen (38.2%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 29.7%)
• minorities (29.4%)
• foreign students (23%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (16%)
• Asians (15.5%)
• disabled students (12%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (11%)
• Hispanics (9.4%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (9.2%)
• Blacks or African Americans (4%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.5%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -22.9%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (700)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (680)
• 25th percentile SAT writing score (700)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (790)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (780)
• 75th percentile SAT writing score (780)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (220)
• average January temperature (48.5 degrees)
• dorm capacity (11,339)
• first-year applicants (36,632)
• foreign students (4,601)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (142)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (2)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (93)
• total 75th percentile SAT score (2,350)
• yearly for-credit students (19,967)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (7.35)
• students per faculty member (12)
• annual rainfall (16.2 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.09)
• elevation (33 meters)

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