closest are U of Oregon (18,847), Cal State-Sacramento (20,667), Washington State Univ (20,082), and Iowa State Univ (24,209), ending with Arizona State (49,945).

844 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for full-time undergrads.

1. Information on numbers and ages of the undergrad and graduate student body is from the file enrollment by age, gender, attendance status, and level of student: Fall 2012 (Provisional release) as reported by the National Center for Education Statistics (http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds).
   
2. Student density refers to the total number of yearly for-credit students within a 5-mile radius, using enrollment data from the 12-month Unduplicated Head Count Data File, 2011-12 (Provisional release) and latitude/longitude data from the IPEDS Directory, 2012-13 (Provisional release) by the National Center for Education Statistics (http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds).
   

UC Santa Barbara is in Santa Barbara, CA, is public, research intensive, a top-100 party school, a top-100 happiest school, a member of the American Association of Universities, has a Phi Beta Kappa chapter, has its top Masters major in education, offers on-campus housing, requires test scores for undergrad admissions, its top major is sociology, is on the quarter system, its top Doctoral major is electrical and electronics engineering, and enrolls 20,000 or more students.

• Times Higher Education world ranking (33rd place)
• ARWU world ranking (35th place)
• Webometrics world ranking (46th place)
• PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (71st place)
• Forbes Best Buy ranking (98th place)
• research spending ($153.6M)
• average full-time teaching salary ($112,804)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($36,549)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($18,382)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($13,671)
• cost of typical room and board ($13,275)
• research spending per student ($6,526)
• average undergrad student loan ($6,110)
• endowment per full-time student ($5,420)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (167.3%)
• full-time retention rate (91%)
• in-state freshmen (89.2%)
• undergrads among full-time students (86.5%)
• undergrads who get financial aid (70%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (53.5%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (50%)
• minorities (39.2%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (39%)
• grad students who are under 25 years old (28.3%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 23.4%)
• Hispanics (21.9%)
• Asians (14.6%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (12.9%)
• disabled students (5%)
• foreign students (4.2%)
• Blacks or African Americans (2.4%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (2.3%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.3%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -19%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (560)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (540)
• 25th percentile SAT writing score (540)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (680)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (650)
• 75th percentile SAT writing score (660)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (8)
• average January temperature (52.1 degrees)
• dorm capacity (7,279)
• first-year applicants (49,664)
• foreign students (994)
• full-time grad students (2,785)
• full-time undergrads (18,715)
• grad students (2,950)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (31)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• total 75th percentile SAT score (1,990)
• undergrads (18,977)
• yearly for-credit students (23,530)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (1.98)
• students per faculty member (17)
• annual rainfall (17.8 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.18)
• elevation (12 meters)

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