beat out by U of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (16,018), Rutgers (15,870), and Michigan State (15,442).

Incidentally, all 4 are a member of the American Association of Universities.

beat UCLA (14,533), Penn State (13,433), Harvard (12,993), and UMass Amherst (12,866), and others, ending with Franciscan School of Theology (5).

1,263 out of the other 3,121 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for dorm capacity, e.g., U of Phoenix-Online Campus.

1. 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).
   

UC Irvine is in Irvine, CA, is public, research intensive, 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, has a nursing major, offers a Doctor of Medicine degree, offers on-campus housing, requires test scores for undergrad admissions, its top major is biology/biological sciences, is on the quarter system, its top Masters major is business administration and management, its top Doctoral major is medicine, and enrolls 20,000 or more students.

• ARWU world ranking (45th place)
• USNews MBA ranking (49th place)
• Webometrics world ranking (53rd place)
• PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (65th place)
• Forbes Best Buy ranking (92nd place)
• Times Higher Education world ranking (93rd place)
• research spending ($226.2M)
• average full-time teaching salary ($108,940)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($36,000)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($16,047)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($13,122)
• cost of typical room and board ($11,706)
• endowment per full-time student ($8,158)
• research spending per student ($7,677)
• average undergrad student loan ($5,289)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (174.3%)
• full-time retention rate (93%)
• in-state freshmen (85.8%)
• undergrads among full-time students (80.8%)
• undergrads who get financial aid (76%)
• minorities (61%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (56.9%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (52%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (45%)
• Asians (43%)
• grad students who are under 25 years old (28.3%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 17.1%)
• Hispanics (15.7%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (12.4%)
• foreign students (6.9%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (4.2%)
• Blacks or African Americans (2%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.3%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -14.6%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (540)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (490)
• 25th percentile SAT writing score (500)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (680)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (610)
• 75th percentile SAT writing score (630)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• average January temperature (54.5 degrees)
• dorm capacity (15,435)
• first-year applicants (49,283)
• foreign students (2,037)
• full-time grad students (4,773)
• full-time undergrads (21,881)
• grad students (5,263)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (20)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (1)
• total 75th percentile SAT score (1,920)
• undergrads (22,216)
• yearly for-credit students (29,460)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (1.72)
• students per faculty member (19)
• annual rainfall (14.3 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.13)
• elevation (46 meters)

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