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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:
  1. School: Contains the name of each school
  2. School_Type: Coded 'LibArts' for liberal arts and 'Univ' for university
  3. SAT: Median combined Math and Verbal SAT score of students
  4. Acceptance: % of applicants accepted
  5. $/Student: Money spent per student in dollars
  6. Top 10%: % of students in the top 10% of their h.s. graduating class
  7. %PhD: % of faculty at the institution that have PhD degrees
  8. 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