closest are Cal State-Long Beach (49,775, 2,538), San Diego State Univ (45,027, 2,969), St. John's Univ-New York (52,972, 3,947), and Drexel (40,586, 4,600), ending with UC Irvine (49,283, 15,435).

1,152 colleges were ruled out due to 288 missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for first-year applicants alone and 864 for both it and dorm capacity together.

1. The number of total first-year applicants 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).
   
2. Information on dorm capacity and on-campus housing 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).
   

Cal State-Fullerton is in Fullerton, CA, is public, more than 50% Black, Hispanic, Asian, American Indian, or Alaska Native, grants doctorates, has a nursing major, has its top Doctoral major in education, has its top Masters major in education, has its top major in business, offers on-campus housing, is on the semester system, and enrolls 20,000 or more students.

• PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (210th place)
• Webometrics world ranking (840th place)
• research spending ($400K)
• average full-time teaching salary ($77,334)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($17,853)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($9,544)
• cost of a shared room ($8,568)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($6,693)
• average undergrad student loan ($5,309)
• endowment per full-time student ($1,212)
• research spending per student ($11)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (166.7%)
• in-state freshmen (97.9%)
• full-time retention rate (88%)
• undergrads among full-time students (85.9%)
• undergrads who get financial aid (65%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (58%)
• minorities (55.5%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (40%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (35%)
• Hispanics (31.5%)
• grad students who are under 25 years old (21%)
• Asians (21%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (20.3%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (14.3%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 9.8%)
• foreign students (4.7%)
• Blacks or African Americans (2.7%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.3%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -8.9%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (460)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (450)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (570)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (550)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (23)
• average January temperature (59.5 degrees)
• dorm capacity (1,906)
• first-year applicants (35,235)
• foreign students (1,856)
• full-time grad students (2,366)
• full-time undergrads (26,079)
• grad students (5,298)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• undergrads (32,379)
• yearly for-credit students (39,103)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (0.6)
• students per faculty member (26)
• annual rainfall (13.4 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.26)
• elevation (72 meters)

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