Datafile Name: Colleges
Datafile Subjects:
Education
Story Names:
Comparing Colleges
Reference: Unknown
Authorization:
Description: These data were collected from the 25 top liberal arts colleges and the 25 top research
universities. There are 50 cases on 8 variables.
Number of cases: 50
Variable Names:
- School: Contains the name of each school
- School_Type: Coded 'LibArts' for liberal arts and 'Univ' for university
- SAT: Median combined Math and Verbal SAT score of students
- Acceptance: % of applicants accepted
- $/Student: Money spent per student in dollars
- Top 10%: % of students in the top 10% of their h.s. graduating class
- %PhD: % of faculty at the institution that have PhD degrees
- Grad%: % of students at institution who eventually graduate
The Data:
School School_Type SAT Acceptance $/Student Top 10% %PhD Grad%
Amherst Lib Arts 1315 22 26636 85 81 93
Swarthmore Lib Arts 1310 24 27487 78 93 88
Williams Lib Arts 1336 28 23772 86 90 93
Bowdoin Lib Arts 1300 24 25703 78 95 90
Wellesley Lib Arts 1250 49 27879 76 91 86
Pomona Lib Arts 1320 33 26668 79 98 80
Wesleyan (CT) Lib Arts 1290 35 19948 73 87 91
Middlebury Lib Arts 1255 25 24718 65 89 92
Smith Lib Arts 1195 57 25271 65 90 87
Davidson Lib Arts 1230 36 17721 77 94 89
Vassar Lib Arts 1287 43 20179 53 90 84
Carleton Lib Arts 1300 40 19504 75 82 80
Claremont McKenna Lib Arts 1260 36 20377 68 94 74
Oberlin Lib Arts 1247 54 23591 64 98 77
Washington & Lee Lib Arts 1234 29 17998 61 89 78
Grinnell Lib Arts 1244 67 22301 65 79 73
Mount Holyoke Lib Arts 1200 61 23358 47 83 83
Colby Lib Arts 1200 46 18872 52 75 84
Hamilton Lib Arts 1215 38 20722 51 86 85
Bates Lib Arts 1240 36 17554 58 81 88
Haverford Lib Arts 1285 35 19418 71 91 87
Colgate Lib Arts 1258 38 17520 61 78 85
Bryn Mawr Lib Arts 1255 56 18847 70 81 84
Occidental Lib Arts 1170 49 20192 54 93 72
Barnard Lib Arts 1220 53 17653 69 98 80
Harvard Univ 1370 18 46918 90 99 90
Stanford Univ 1370 18 61921 92 96 88
Yale Univ 1350 19 52468 90 97 93
Princeton Univ 1340 17 48123 89 99 93
Cal Tech Univ 1400 31 102262 98 98 75
MIT Univ 1357 30 56766 95 98 86
Duke Univ 1310 25 39504 91 95 91
Dartmouth Univ 1306 25 35804 86 100 95
Cornell Univ 1280 30 37137 85 90 83
Columbia Univ 1268 29 45879 78 93 90
U of Chicago Univ 1300 45 38937 74 100 73
Brown Univ 1281 24 24201 80 98 90
U Penn Univ 1280 41 30882 87 99 86
Berkeley Univ 1176 37 23665 95 93 68
Johns Hopkins Univ 1290 48 45460 69 58 86
Rice Univ 1327 24 26730 85 95 88
UCLA Univ 1142 43 26859 96 100 61
U Va. Univ 1218 37 19365 77 91 88
Georgetown Univ 1278 24 23115 79 89 89
UNC Univ 1109 32 19684 82 84 73
U Michican Univ 1195 60 21853 71 93 77
Carnegie Mellon Univ 1225 64 33607 52 84 77
Northwestern Univ 1230 47 28851 77 79 82
Washington U (MO) Univ 1225 54 39883 71 98 76
U of Rochester Univ 1155 56 38597 52 96 73