after U of California-Davis ($111,385, 42%), closest are Rutgers Univ-Newark ($111,092, 47%), UC Irvine ($108,940, 45%), St. John's Univ-New York ($108,750, 46%), and UCSD ($106,619, 46%), ending with Williamson Christian College ($3,939, 45%).

83 out of the other 1,632 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for average full-time teaching salary, e.g., New York School of Interior Design.

1. Teaching salaries for men and women are from the Salary Outlays for Full-time Instructional Staff by Contract Length, Gender, and Academic Rank: 2011-12 (Final/revised release) by the National Center for Education Statistics (http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds).
   
2. The data on undergrad loans, financial aid, and Pell grants are from the Student Financial Aid Data File, 2011-12 (Provisional release) as reported by the National Center for Education Statistics (http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds).
   

U of California-Davis is in Davis, CA, is public, research intensive, a land-grant institution, a top-100 happiest school, a member of the American Association of Universities, more than 50% Black, Hispanic, Asian, American Indian, or Alaska Native, has a Phi Beta Kappa chapter, has a hospital, has a law school, offers a Doctor of Medicine degree, offers on-campus housing, requires test scores for undergrad admissions, its top major is psychology, is on the quarter system, its top Masters major is business administration and management, its top Doctoral major is law, and enrolls 20,000 or more students.

• USNews law school ranking (38th place)
• USNews MBA ranking (40th place)
• ARWU world ranking (47th place)
• Times Higher Education world ranking (52nd place)
• Webometrics world ranking (59th place)
• PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (68th place)
• research spending ($453.4M)
• average full-time teaching salary ($111,385)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($36,755)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($16,235)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($13,877)
• cost of typical room and board ($13,503)
• research spending per student ($13,308)
• endowment per full-time student ($7,306)
• average undergrad student loan ($5,460)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (164.9%)
• in-state freshmen (92.4%)
• full-time retention rate (92%)
• undergrads who get financial aid (80%)
• undergrads among full-time students (79.3%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (57.2%)
• minorities (50.1%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (49%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (42%)
• Asians (33.1%)
• grad students who are under 25 years old (26.7%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 16.3%)
• Hispanics (14.3%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (12.5%)
• foreign students (5.7%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (5.4%)
• Blacks or African Americans (2.3%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.4%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -14%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (570)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (520)
• 25th percentile SAT writing score (530)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (690)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (640)
• 75th percentile SAT writing score (660)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (16)
• average January temperature (46.0 degrees)
• dorm capacity (6,053)
• first-year applicants (46,215)
• foreign students (1,935)
• full-time grad students (6,053)
• full-time undergrads (25,056)
• grad students (6,688)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (21)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• total 75th percentile SAT score (1,990)
• undergrads (25,666)
• yearly for-credit students (34,072)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (2.53)
• students per faculty member (17)
• annual rainfall (19.6 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.13)
• elevation (15 meters)

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