beat out by UCLA (61,556), UCSD (53,449), UC Berkeley (52,982), and St. John's Univ-New York (52,972).

Incidentally, all 5 enroll 20,000 or more students.

beat UC Santa Barbara (49,664), UC Irvine (49,283), U of California-Davis (46,215), and USC (46,104), and others, ending with Golden Gate Univ-San Francisco (0).

1,160 out of the other 3,121 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for first-year applicants, e.g., Liberty Univ.

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).
   

Cal State-Long Beach is in Long Beach, CA, is public, more than 50% Black, Hispanic, Asian, American Indian, or Alaska Native, grants doctorates, has a Phi Beta Kappa chapter, 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 (206th place)
• Webometrics world ranking (671st place)
• average full-time teaching salary ($79,074)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($17,898)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($9,725)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($6,240)
• average undergrad student loan ($5,225)
• cost of a shared room ($5,200)
• endowment per full-time student ($1,515)
• research spending ($0.0K)
• research spending per student ($0.0)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (186.8%)
• in-state freshmen (96.2%)
• full-time retention rate (88%)
• undergrads among full-time students (85.6%)
• undergrads who get financial aid (72%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (59.7%)
• minorities (57.7%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (48%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (40%)
• Hispanics (31.1%)
• Asians (21.6%)
• grad students who are under 25 years old (20%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (17.3%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (14%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 8.2%)
• foreign students (5.1%)
• Blacks or African Americans (4.3%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.7%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -7.5%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (460)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (440)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (590)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (560)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (35)
• average January temperature (56.7 degrees)
• dorm capacity (2,538)
• first-year applicants (49,775)
• foreign students (1,904)
• full-time grad students (2,611)
• full-time undergrads (25,932)
• grad students (5,226)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (1)
• undergrads (31,053)
• yearly for-credit students (37,145)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (0.8)
• students per faculty member (26)
• annual rainfall (12.3 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.06)
• elevation (4 meters)

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