1. Spending on research and public services is from the Finance Data File 2009 (Revised March 2012) as reported by the National Center for Education Statistics (http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds).
   
2. The Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2013-2014 is published at http://www.TimesHigherEducation.co.uk.
   

San Diego State Univ is in San Diego, CA, is public, is in the Mountain West Conference, research intensive, a top-100 party school, has a Phi Beta Kappa chapter, has a nursing major, has its top Doctoral major in education, has its top major in business, offers on-campus housing, plays division I/FBS football, is on the semester system, its top Masters major is business administration and management, and enrolls 20,000 or more students.

• Forbes Best Buy ranking (23rd place)
• USNews MBA ranking (86th place)
• PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (243rd place)
• ARWU world ranking (301st place)
• Webometrics world ranking (322nd place)
• Times Higher Education world ranking (351st place)
• research spending ($500K)
• average full-time teaching salary ($85,735)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($18,236)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($9,926)
• cost of a shared room ($6,737)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($6,578)
• average undergrad student loan ($5,626)
• endowment per full-time student ($5,262)
• research spending per student ($14)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (177.2%)
• full-time retention rate (89%)
• in-state freshmen (87.9%)
• undergrads among full-time students (84.3%)
• undergrads who get financial aid (61%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (60.9%)
• minorities (43.2%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (37%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (31%)
• grad students who are under 25 years old (26.7%)
• Hispanics (25.6%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (16.9%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (13.5%)
• Asians (13.3%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 11.3%)
• foreign students (5.7%)
• Blacks or African Americans (3.9%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.4%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -10.2%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (500)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (480)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (610)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (580)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (181)
• average January temperature (57.9 degrees)
• dorm capacity (2,969)
• first-year applicants (45,027)
• foreign students (1,856)
• full-time grad students (2,712)
• full-time undergrads (23,036)
• grad students (4,853)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• undergrads (25,990)
• yearly for-credit students (32,595)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (2.53)
• students per faculty member (29)
• annual rainfall (12.7 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.14)
• elevation (87 meters)

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