after U of California-Riverside (28,099, 59%), closest are Cal State-Northridge (25,822, 59%), Cal State-Los Angeles (24,218, 76%), CUNY City College (20,903, 62%), and CUNY New York City College of Technology (16,848, 77%), ending with Denver School of Nursing (0, 100%).

493 out of the other 1,031 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for first-year applicants, e.g., Tennessee State 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).
   
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-Riverside is in Riverside, CA, is public, research intensive, a land-grant institution, a top-100 happiest school, more than 50% Black, Hispanic, Asian, American Indian, or Alaska Native, has a Phi Beta Kappa chapter, has its top major in business, offers on-campus housing, requires test scores for undergrad admissions, is on the quarter system, its top Masters major is business administration and management, its top Doctoral major is electrical and electronics engineering, and enrolls 20,000 or more students.

• Webometrics world ranking (95th place)
• ARWU world ranking (101st place)
• Times Higher Education world ranking (148th place)
• PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (230th place)
• research spending ($95.9M)
• average full-time teaching salary ($101,425)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($35,838)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($17,522)
• cost of typical room and board ($13,240)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($12,960)
• average undergrad student loan ($5,146)
• endowment per full-time student ($4,907)
• research spending per student ($4,281)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (176.5%)
• in-state freshmen (96.5%)
• undergrads among full-time students (88.5%)
• full-time retention rate (88%)
• undergrads who get financial aid (86%)
• minorities (71.3%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (59%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (58%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (54.7%)
• Asians (34.6%)
• Hispanics (30.3%)
• grad students who are under 25 years old (30%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 24.6%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (12.7%)
• Blacks or African Americans (6.1%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (4.7%)
• foreign students (4.6%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.3%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -19.7%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (490)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (460)
• 25th percentile SAT writing score (470)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (630)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (580)
• 75th percentile SAT writing score (580)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (6)
• average January temperature (55.2 degrees)
• dorm capacity (5,880)
• first-year applicants (28,099)
• foreign students (1,036)
• full-time grad students (2,296)
• full-time undergrads (18,054)
• grad students (2,408)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (6)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• total 75th percentile SAT score (1,790)
• undergrads (18,539)
• yearly for-credit students (22,397)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (2.44)
• students per faculty member (19)
• annual rainfall (10.3 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.12)
• elevation (320 meters)

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