bested Tuskegee Univ (400), Indiana Univ-Purdue Univ-Indianapolis (420), and Marshall Univ (430).

Incidentally, none of the 4 has a Phi Beta Kappa chapter.

trailed Southern Illinois Univ Edwardsville (448), Washington State Univ (450), U of Nevada-Reno (450), and U of South Dakota (460), and others, ending with Yale (710).

101 out of the other 175 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for 25th percentile SAT writing score, e.g., William Carey Univ.

1. Medical degrees include Medicine, Dentistry, Osteopathic Medicine, and Veterinary Medicine and are from the IPEDS Directory, 2012-13 (Provisional release) 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 South Alabama is in Mobile, AL, is public, is in the Sun Belt Conference, research intensive, has a hospital, has a nursing major, has an emergency medical technology program, 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.

• PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (626th place)
• Webometrics world ranking (1,192nd place)
• research spending ($25.7M)
• average full-time teaching salary ($67,986)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($13,020)
• endowment per full-time student ($10,395)
• average undergrad student loan ($7,778)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($6,660)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($6,000)
• cost of a shared room ($3,900)
• research spending per student ($1,485)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (95.5%)
• undergrads who get financial aid (94%)
• in-state freshmen (81.8%)
• undergrads among full-time students (77.3%)
• full-time retention rate (66%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (62%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (54.7%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (45%)
• minorities (25.5%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (24.5%)
• grad students who are under 25 years old (21.7%)
• Blacks or African Americans (19.3%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (15.2%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 14.9%)
• foreign students (4.3%)
• Asians (3%)
• Hispanics (2.4%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.8%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -13%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (440)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (445)
• 25th percentile SAT writing score (440)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (580)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (570)
• 75th percentile SAT writing score (555)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• average January temperature (50.4 degrees)
• dorm capacity (3,098)
• first-year applicants (4,770)
• foreign students (740)
• full-time grad students (2,752)
• full-time undergrads (8,708)
• grad students (3,321)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• total 75th percentile SAT score (1,705)
• undergrads (11,315)
• yearly for-credit students (17,302)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (2.74)
• students per faculty member (21)
• annual rainfall (66.2 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.03)
• elevation (36 meters)

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