closest are Northern Arizona Univ (34,461, 76%), St. John's Univ-New York (52,972, 76%), U of Arizona (26,854, 80%), and Arizona State (29,722, 80%), ending with Yale (27,283, 99%).

1,070 colleges were ruled out due to 467 missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for first-year applicants alone and 603 for both it and full-time retention rate 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. Student retention data are from the file total entering class, retention rates, and student-to-faculty ratio: Fall 2012 (Provisional release) as reported by the National Center for Education Statistics (http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds).
   

Cal State-Northridge is in Northridge, 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, offers on-campus housing, requires test scores for undergrad admissions, its top major is psychology, is on the semester system, its top Masters major is public administration, and enrolls 20,000 or more students.

• PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (299th place)
• Webometrics world ranking (605th place)
• research spending ($2.4M)
• average full-time teaching salary ($78,214)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($18,162)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($10,539)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($6,504)
• cost of a shared room ($6,449)
• average undergrad student loan ($4,782)
• endowment per full-time student ($2,083)
• research spending per student ($61)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (179.2%)
• in-state freshmen (95.1%)
• undergrads among full-time students (86.9%)
• full-time retention rate (75%)
• undergrads who get financial aid (74%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (59%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (54.8%)
• minorities (51.2%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (38%)
• Hispanics (33.5%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (20.2%)
• grad students who are under 25 years old (19.9%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (12.5%)
• Asians (10.7%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 9.7%)
• foreign students (7.3%)
• Blacks or African Americans (6.8%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.2%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -8.8%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (410)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (400)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (530)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (510)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (11)
• average January temperature (56.1 degrees)
• dorm capacity (2,846)
• first-year applicants (25,822)
• foreign students (2,927)
• full-time grad students (2,261)
• full-time undergrads (25,641)
• grad students (4,722)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• undergrads (31,442)
• yearly for-credit students (39,844)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (1.29)
• students per faculty member (26)
• annual rainfall (14.7 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.11)
• elevation (266 meters)

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