College: U.S. News and World Report's College Data
Description
Statistics for a large number of US Colleges from the 1995
issue of US News and World Report.
Usage
College
Arguments
Format
A data frame with 777 observations on the following 18 variables.
Private
A factor with levels No and Yes
indicating private or public university
Apps
Number of applications received
Accept
Number of applications accepted
Enroll
Number of new students enrolled
Top10perc
Pct. new students from top 10% of H.S. class
Top25perc
Pct. new students from top 25% of H.S. class
F.Undergrad
Number of fulltime undergraduates
P.Undergrad
Number of parttime undergraduates
Outstate
Out-of-state tuition
Room.Board
Room and board costs
Books
Estimated book costs
Personal
Estimated personal spending
PhD
Pct. of faculty with Ph.D.'s
Terminal
Pct. of faculty with terminal degree
S.F.Ratio
Student/faculty ratio
perc.alumni
Pct. alumni who donate
Expend
Instructional expenditure per student
Grad.Rate
Graduation rate
References
James, G., Witten, D., Hastie, T., and Tibshirani, R. (2013)
An Introduction to Statistical Learning with applications in R,
https://www.statlearning.com,
Springer-Verlag, New York