What variables should I consider when choosing a college?

What variables should I consider when choosing a college?

Basically, there are a tremendous amount of selection factors that are involved in selecting a college. Certainly academic programs are one, but there are so many other things to consider: the size of the school, the geography, where the school is located. Do you want to be in a city, near a city, in a rural area? What's the politics of the campus? Is it faith-based? Do you want a co-ed school? What's the percentage of PhDs that are teaching? Are you being taught by teaching assistants, or graduate students, or full professors? So, there's a lot of variables to consider in selecting a college.