beat UCSD (53,449), UC Berkeley (52,982), St. John's Univ-New York (52,972), and Cal State-Long Beach (49,775), and others, ending with South Univ-Cleveland (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).
   

UCLA is in Los Angeles, CA, is public, is in the Pacific-12 Conference, research intensive, a top-100 happiest school, a member of the American Association of Universities, has a Phi Beta Kappa chapter, has a hospital, has a law school, has a nursing major, has had a Final Four men's basketball team, offers a Doctor of Medicine degree, offers on-campus housing, plays division I/FBS football, requires test scores for undergrad admissions, its top major is political science and government, 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.

• Webometrics world ranking (8th place)
• ARWU world ranking (12th place)
• Times Higher Education world ranking (12th place)
• USNews MBA ranking (14th place)
• USNews law school ranking (17th place)
• Forbes Best Buy ranking (45th place)
• PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (77th place)
• research spending ($635.4M)
• average full-time teaching salary ($129,100)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($35,570)
• endowment per full-time student ($32,548)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($16,760)
• research spending per student ($15,109)
• cost of typical room and board ($14,232)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($12,692)
• average undergrad student loan ($6,145)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (180.3%)
• full-time retention rate (96%)
• in-state freshmen (71.7%)
• undergrads among full-time students (69.9%)
• undergrads who get financial aid (68%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (55.5%)
• minorities (47.5%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (39%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (32%)
• Asians (29.4%)
• grad students who are under 25 years old (26.3%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 25.4%)
• Hispanics (14.5%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (12.7%)
• foreign students (10.8%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (5.3%)
• disabled students (4%)
• Blacks or African Americans (3.4%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.2%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -20.3%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (610)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (560)
• 25th percentile SAT writing score (590)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (740)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (690)
• 75th percentile SAT writing score (710)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (291)
• average January temperature (59.0 degrees)
• dorm capacity (14,533)
• first-year applicants (61,556)
• foreign students (4,551)
• full-time grad students (11,585)
• full-time undergrads (27,365)
• grad students (12,004)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (41)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (18)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (11)
• total 75th percentile SAT score (2,140)
• undergrads (27,941)
• yearly for-credit students (42,057)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (2.81)
• students per faculty member (16)
• annual rainfall (18.6 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.28)
• elevation (130 meters)

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