closest are San Diego State Univ (322nd place, $14), U of North Texas (164th place, $387), San Francisco State Univ (491st place, $422), and Kent State (447th place, $656), ending with UC San Francisco (9th place, $207,660).

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 Webometrics world ranking of universities refers to the first 2014 version from Webometrics.info.
   

San Jose State Univ is in San Jose, CA, is public, is in the Western Athletic Conference, degree-granting, more than 50% Black, Hispanic, Asian, American Indian, or Alaska Native, has a nursing major, 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 library and information science, and enrolls 20,000 or more students.

• PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (122nd place)
• Webometrics world ranking (543rd place)
• average full-time teaching salary ($83,737)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($18,786)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($9,278)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($7,128)
• cost of a shared room ($6,207)
• average undergrad student loan ($5,205)
• endowment per full-time student ($3,183)
• research spending ($0.0K)
• research spending per student ($0.0)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (163.6%)
• in-state freshmen (97.3%)
• full-time retention rate (83%)
• undergrads among full-time students (82.6%)
• undergrads who get financial aid (64%)
• minorities (55.2%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (50.2%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (46%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (42%)
• Asians (30.9%)
• grad students who are under 25 years old (22.8%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (20.9%)
• Hispanics (20.3%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (14.2%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 10.2%)
• foreign students (7.2%)
• disabled students (4%)
• Blacks or African Americans (3.8%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.2%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -9.3%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (460)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (430)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (580)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (540)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (114)
• average January temperature (51.1 degrees)
• dorm capacity (3,722)
• first-year applicants (22,978)
• foreign students (2,345)
• full-time grad students (3,100)
• full-time undergrads (20,320)
• grad students (5,291)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• undergrads (25,157)
• yearly for-credit students (32,568)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (1.47)
• students per faculty member (25)
• annual rainfall (14.9 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.19)
• elevation (26 meters)

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