beat out by Notre Dame (680), Georgetown (650), Boston College (640), and Villanova (610).

Incidentally, all 5 have a Phi Beta Kappa chapter.

beat Fordham (590), U of San Diego (570), Edgewood College (568), and Gonzaga Univ (560), and others, ending with Neumann Univ (350).

92 out of the other 234 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for 25th percentile SAT math score, e.g., Mount Mary College.

1. The college's religious affiliation (if any) 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. College SAT data 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). Note that only about 41% of all colleges in this dataset reported at least one numeric SAT score.
   

Santa Clara Univ is in Santa Clara, CA, is private and nonprofit, is Roman Catholic, accepts the Common Application, grants doctorates, has a Phi Beta Kappa chapter, has a law school, has had a Final Four men's basketball team, offers on-campus housing, requires test scores for undergrad admissions, its top major is psychology and speech communication and rhetoric, is on the quarter system, its top Masters major is business administration and management, its top Doctoral major is law, and enrolls from 5,000 to 9,999 students.

• PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (24th place)
• USNews law school ranking (96th place)
• Webometrics world ranking (634th place)
• research spending ($5.3M)
• average full-time teaching salary ($102,386)
• endowment per full-time student ($66,918)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($40,572)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($40,572)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($18,705)
• cost of typical room and board ($12,276)
• average undergrad student loan ($6,798)
• research spending per student ($525)
• full-time retention rate (95%)
• undergrads who get financial aid (79%)
• undergrads among full-time students (61.6%)
• in-state freshmen (59.2%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (49.4%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (41%)
• minorities (33.2%)
• grad students who are under 25 years old (22.5%)
• Asians (17.8%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 14.1%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (13%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (12.7%)
• Hispanics (12.5%)
• foreign students (10%)
• Blacks or African Americans (2.7%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (1.8%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.2%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -12.4%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (600)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (570)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (690)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (680)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (40)
• average January temperature (51.1 degrees)
• dorm capacity (3,083)
• first-year applicants (13,342)
• foreign students (999)
• full-time grad students (1,725)
• full-time undergrads (5,141)
• grad students (3,269)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (1)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (2)
• undergrads (5,250)
• yearly for-credit students (10,008)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (0.6)
• students per faculty member (12)
• annual rainfall (14.9 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.21)
• elevation (24 meters)

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