selectivity - Barron’s
2001 admissions selectivity (1 to 6 – recoded so
that higher is more selective)
sector (private=1, public=0)
enrollment (undergraduate, in thousands)
urbanicity (from IPEDS, large city is the reference category)
- rural
- small town
- large town
- fringe1 (fringe of mid-size city)
- mid-size (city)
- fringe2 (fringe of large city)
2000 Carnegie Classification (Master’s institutions
are the reference classification)
- Extensive (Doctoral/Research Universities)
- Intensive (Doctoral/Research Universities)
- Liberal Arts (BA)
- General (BA)
- Other Carnegie (Classifications greater than 32)
| on campus (proportion first-year
students who report living on campus or in Greek housing)
female (proportion female first-year students from IPEDS)
full-time (proportion full-time first-year students from
IPEDS)
age (mean for first-year students)
major field (proportion of first-year students who self-report
each; social sciences is the reference category)
- humanities
- math
- preprofessional
- multiple (fields)
race/ethnicity (proportion of first-year students from
IPEDS; White is the reference category)
- Alien
- Asian
- Black
- Latina/o
- Native American
- Unknown
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