closest are Cal State-Northridge (25,641), Cal State-Fullerton (26,079), Purdue (29,360), and Indiana Univ-Bloomington (30,949), ending with Arizona State (49,945).

994 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for full-time undergrads.

1. Information on numbers and ages of the undergrad and graduate student body is from the file enrollment by age, gender, attendance status, and level of student: Fall 2012 (Provisional release) as reported by the National Center for Education Statistics (http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds).
   
2. Student density refers to the total number of yearly for-credit students within a 5-mile radius, using enrollment data from the 12-month Unduplicated Head Count Data File, 2011-12 (Provisional release) and latitude/longitude data from the IPEDS Directory, 2012-13 (Provisional release) by the National Center for Education Statistics (http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds).
   

U of Alabama is in Tuscaloosa, AL, is public, is in the Southeastern Conference, research intensive, a top-100 party school, has a Phi Beta Kappa chapter, has a law school, has a nursing major, has its top major in business, offers on-campus housing, plays division I/FBS football, requires test scores for undergrad admissions, is on the semester system, its top Masters major is social work, its top Doctoral major is law, and enrolls 20,000 or more students.

• USNews law school ranking (21st place)
• USNews MBA ranking (58th place)
• Forbes Best Buy ranking (75th place)
• ARWU world ranking (201st place)
• Webometrics world ranking (322nd place)
• PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (385th place)
• research spending ($38.4M)
• average full-time teaching salary ($85,108)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($22,950)
• endowment per full-time student ($22,437)
• average undergrad student loan ($13,089)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($9,601)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($9,200)
• cost of a shared room ($5,600)
• research spending per student ($1,086)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (149.5%)
• full-time retention rate (85%)
• undergrads among full-time students (83.7%)
• undergrads who get financial aid (76%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (55.8%)
• in-state freshmen (44.7%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (44%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 31.3%)
• grad students who are under 25 years old (30.3%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (20%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (19.5%)
• minorities (17.1%)
• Blacks or African Americans (13%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (8.3%)
• foreign students (4.5%)
• disabled students (4%)
• Hispanics (2.4%)
• Asians (1.2%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.5%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -23.8%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (500)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (500)
• 25th percentile SAT writing score (490)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (640)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (620)
• 75th percentile SAT writing score (610)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (285)
• dorm capacity (8,050)
• first-year applicants (26,409)
• foreign students (1,572)
• full-time grad students (3,328)
• full-time undergrads (25,430)
• grad students (5,477)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (15)
• total 75th percentile SAT score (1,870)
• undergrads (28,026)
• yearly for-credit students (35,308)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (1.73)
• students per faculty member (20)
• annual rainfall (51.8 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.06)
• elevation (67 meters)

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