outdone by SUNY Downstate Medical Center ($117,786), U of Rochester ($109,602), U of Maryland-Baltimore ($108,865), and Johns Hopkins ($107,742).

Incidentally, all 5 grant doctorates.

outdid Medical U of South Carolina ($101,727), Roseman U of Health Sciences ($101,243), Samuel Merritt Univ ($97,281), and Adelphi Univ ($97,005), and others, ending with Atenas College ($18,957).

2 out of the other 311 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for average full-time teaching salary, e.g., Penn State-World Campus.

1. Teaching salaries for men and women are from the Salary Outlays for Full-time Instructional Staff by Contract Length, Gender, and Academic Rank: 2011-12 (Final/revised release) by the National Center for Education Statistics (http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds).
   
2. Information on majors and programs of study is from the Completions Data File, 2011-12 (Provisional release) as reported by the National Center for Education Statistics (http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds). Top majors are the ones that have the most conferred degrees. If it says "is in" rather than just "is", then various top majors were combined into a new attribute. For example, colleges whose top major is "in engineering" will include a college whose top major is chemical engineering, another whose top major is electrical engineering, and so on.
   

U of San Francisco is in San Francisco, CA, is private and nonprofit, is Roman Catholic, research intensive, accepts the Common Application, has a law school, has a nursing major, has had a Final Four men's basketball team, has its top major in nursing, offers on-campus housing, requires test scores for undergrad admissions, is on the semester system, its top Masters major is business administration and management, its top Doctoral major is law, and enrolls from 10,000 to 19,999 students.

• PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (119th place)
• USNews law school ranking (144th place)
• Webometrics world ranking (1,046th place)
• research spending ($2.0M)
• average full-time teaching salary ($105,893)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($38,884)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($38,884)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($22,805)
• endowment per full-time student ($21,834)
• cost of a shared room ($8,490)
• average undergrad student loan ($7,954)
• research spending per student ($174)
• full-time retention rate (88%)
• undergrads who get financial aid (77%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (63.8%)
• undergrads among full-time students (63.5%)
• in-state freshmen (61.2%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (55%)
• minorities (36.5%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (29%)
• grad students who are under 25 years old (25.8%)
• Asians (16.8%)
• Hispanics (15.3%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 12.7%)
• foreign students (12.3%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (11.8%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (9.8%)
• disabled students (8%)
• Blacks or African Americans (4%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.4%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -11.3%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (530)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (510)
• 25th percentile SAT writing score (520)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (630)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (620)
• 75th percentile SAT writing score (620)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (30)
• average January temperature (51.3 degrees)
• dorm capacity (2,189)
• first-year applicants (11,223)
• foreign students (1,411)
• full-time grad students (3,135)
• full-time undergrads (6,117)
• grad students (3,661)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (3)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (1)
• total 75th percentile SAT score (1,870)
• undergrads (6,379)
• yearly for-credit students (11,473)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (0.7)
• students per faculty member (15)
• annual rainfall (23.6 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.17)
• elevation (82 meters)

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