closest are U of Illinois at Chicago ($241.0M, 78%), U of Hawaii at Manoa ($284.7M, 79%), U of Alabama at Birmingham ($313.9M, 80%), and U of Arizona ($385.5M, 80%), ending with Yale ($438.9M, 99%).

798 colleges were ruled out due to 454 missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for research spending alone, 5 for full-time retention rate alone, and 339 for both together.

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. Student retention data are from the file total entering class, retention rates, and student-to-faculty ratio: Fall 2012 (Provisional release) as reported by the National Center for Education Statistics (http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds).
   

U of Colorado Denver is in Denver, CO, is public, research intensive, has a hospital, has a nursing major, has its top major in business, offers a Doctor of Medicine degree, 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 pharmacy, and enrolls 20,000 or more students.

• ARWU world ranking (201st place)
• PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (336th place)
• Webometrics world ranking (462nd place)
• research spending ($204.9M)
• average full-time teaching salary ($83,807)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($21,006)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($7,494)
• cost of a shared room ($7,110)
• research spending per student ($6,901)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($6,503)
• average undergrad student loan ($5,254)
• endowment per full-time student ($0)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (180.3%)
• in-state freshmen (84.3%)
• undergrads who get financial aid (73%)
• full-time retention rate (71%)
• undergrads among full-time students (58.5%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (56.3%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (39%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (39%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (26.3%)
• minorities (22.2%)
• grad students who are under 25 years old (16.7%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 11.6%)
• Hispanics (10.8%)
• Asians (6.9%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (6.7%)
• foreign students (5.7%)
• disabled students (4%)
• Blacks or African Americans (3.9%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.6%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -10.4%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (490)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (480)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (620)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (590)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• average January temperature (34.2 degrees)
• dorm capacity (685)
• first-year applicants (2,843)
• foreign students (1,692)
• full-time grad students (3,980)
• full-time undergrads (7,741)
• grad students (9,293)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (3)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• undergrads (13,103)
• yearly for-credit students (29,693)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (1.92)
• students per faculty member (17)
• annual rainfall (17.1 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.45)
• elevation (1,583 meters)

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