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What's exceptional about Florida Atlantic Univ (fau) ?

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many applicants; lower SATs

Florida Atlantic Univ has the most first-year applicants (25,726) of the 359 colleges with as low a total 75th percentile SAT score (1,710). Those 25,726 represent 2.2% of the total across the 359 colleges, whose average is 3,284, and 0.3% among all colleges.



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closest are Northern Illinois Univ (23,720, 1,690), Bowling Green State Univ (16,108, 1,710), East Carolina Univ (15,299, 1,670), and UC Merced (15,208, 1,680), ending with American Jewish Univ (28, 1,650).

References

  1. The number of total first-year applicants 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. The total 75th-percentile SAT score is calculated as the sum of the math, reading, and writing 75th-percentile scores, using college SAT data 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.

Profile

Florida Atlantic Univ is in Boca Raton, FL, is public, is in the Sun Belt Conference, research intensive, has a nursing major, has its top Doctoral major in education, has its top major in education, offers on-campus housing, plays division I/FBS football, requires test scores for undergrad admissions, is on the semester system, its top Masters major is business administration and management, its top Associates major is liberal arts and sciences/liberal studies, and enrolls 20,000 or more students.

  • PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (545th place)
  • Webometrics world ranking (746th place)
  • research spending ($21.8M)
  • average full-time teaching salary ($71,196)
  • out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($17,234)
  • cost of a shared room ($7,705)
  • endowment per full-time student ($7,158)
  • average undergrad student loan ($5,699)
  • average grant aid to undergrads ($5,460)
  • in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($4,789)
  • research spending per student ($594)
  • non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (259.9%)
  • undergrads who get financial aid (90%)
  • in-state freshmen (87%)
  • undergrads among full-time students (83.7%)
  • full-time retention rate (78%)
  • ratio of female full-time freshmen (54.8%)
  • undergrads who receive student loans (46%)
  • minorities (44.2%)
  • undergrads who get Pell grants (39%)
  • undergrads who are 25 years or older (29%)
  • tuition & fees increase over three years (22.9%)
  • average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 21.7%)
  • Hispanics (21.2%)
  • Blacks or African Americans (18.3%)
  • grad students who are under 25 years old (17.1%)
  • Asians (4.5%)
  • foreign students (2.2%)
  • American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.2%)
  • average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -17.8%)
  • 25th percentile SAT math score (490)
  • 25th percentile SAT reading score (480)
  • 25th percentile SAT writing score (480)
  • 75th percentile SAT math score (580)
  • 75th percentile SAT reading score (570)
  • 75th percentile SAT writing score (560)
  • alumni who played in the National Football League (6)
  • average January temperature (66.8 degrees)
  • dorm capacity (3,850)
  • first-year applicants (25,726)
  • foreign students (792)
  • full-time grad students (1,900)
  • full-time undergrads (15,661)
  • grad students (4,889)
  • members of the National Academy of Sciences (1)
  • men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
  • Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
  • total 75th percentile SAT score (1,710)
  • undergrads (25,105)
  • yearly for-credit students (36,800)
  • on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (1.21)
  • students per faculty member (23)
  • annual rainfall (60.0 inches)
  • diversity and inclusion ratio (0.04)
  • elevation (2 meters)

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