According to the federal government, college campuses averaged about 18 homicides nationwide per year over the last decade, and more than 90 percent of violent crime against college students takes place off campus.
The students in Alfred's Greek houses tended to drink more, and more often, than other Alfred students, and their overall academic standing was both lower than the campus average and lower than their SAT scores and high school grades might have suggested.
For the period covered by the NCAA study, WPI's student athletes out-performed both the national and campus averages, with a six-year graduation rate of 90percentt versus the overall WPI rate of 76percentt.
The affiliated maternal hospital on the same campus averages 8000 deliveries per year.
The top 25percentt of the applicants that City College accepted as freshmen through its regular admissions procedure from American high schools last fall tied for the highest SAT scores among CUNY's 17 campuses: an average combined mathematics and verbal score of 1,200 out of 1,600.
On American college campuses, an average of 1 in 5 women will experience sexual assault.
For example, the Terre Haute campus attracts the fewest students of any regional campus (an average of only one student per year) and yet it produces a disproportionate number of graduates who return to practice family medicine in the area.
The bid for prestige has set off alarms particularly at the Newark campus, where average SAT scores are lower, but students routinely outperform predicted graduation rates.
The biggest difference between the Princeton Review college rankings and every other college ranking: Our ranking lists are entirely based on our surveys of current college students (about 325 per campus on average, 122,000 in the new edition of The Best 373 Colleges).
And in many cases, it's cheaper than shelling out for the dorms: while students living on private college campuses pay an average $7,144 a year for room and board, those who live off campus (but not with their parents) average $668 less -- a gap that's been widening over the years.
