after U of Alabama at Birmingham ($15,026, 500), closest are U of Hawaii at Manoa ($11,915, 480), SUNY at Albany ($9,302, 500), U of Arizona ($8,956, 480), and U of Iowa ($8,815, 470), ending with Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College ($0.0, 200).

41 out of the other 959 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for research spending per student, e.g., Embry-Riddle Aeronautical Univ-Prescott.

1. Spending on research and public services is from the Finance Data File 2009 (Revised March 2012) as reported by the National Center for Education Statistics (http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds).
   
2. College SAT data is from the Institutional Characteristics Data File 2012-2013 (Provisional Release) as reported by the National Center for Education Statistics (http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds). Note that only about 41% of all colleges in this dataset reported at least one numeric SAT score.
   

U of Alabama at Birmingham is in Birmingham, AL, is public, is in the Conference USA, research intensive, has a hospital, has a nursing major, has its top Masters major in nursing, has its top major in nursing, offers a Doctor of Medicine degree, offers on-campus housing, plays division I/FBS football, requires test scores for undergrad admissions, is on the semester system, its top Doctoral major is medicine, and enrolls from 10,000 to 19,999 students.

• Webometrics world ranking (367th place)
• PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (566th place)
• research spending ($313.9M)
• average full-time teaching salary ($93,997)
• endowment per full-time student ($22,946)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($15,462)
• research spending per student ($15,026)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($6,798)
• average undergrad student loan ($6,463)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($6,432)
• cost of a shared room ($5,400)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (127.4%)
• undergrads who get financial aid (88%)
• in-state freshmen (86.6%)
• full-time retention rate (80%)
• undergrads among full-time students (62.7%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (56.5%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (55%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (37%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (35.3%)
• minorities (29%)
• grad students who are under 25 years old (25.4%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (24.8%)
• Blacks or African Americans (22.2%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 17%)
• Asians (4.3%)
• foreign students (3.2%)
• Hispanics (2.2%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.3%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -14.5%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (500)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (500)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (640)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (630)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (14)
• average January temperature (43.8 degrees)
• dorm capacity (2,260)
• first-year applicants (5,575)
• foreign students (660)
• full-time grad students (3,695)
• full-time undergrads (8,270)
• grad students (6,708)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (1)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (2)
• undergrads (11,291)
• yearly for-credit students (20,892)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (0.9)
• students per faculty member (18)
• annual rainfall (53.7 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.04)
• elevation (188 meters)

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