beat U of Houston (7,987), U of California-Davis (6,688), UCSD (5,618), and Cal State-Fullerton (5,298), and others, ending with South Univ-Austin (3).

352 out of the other 537 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for grad students, e.g., Miami Dade College.

1. Information on numbers and ages of the undergrad and graduate student body is from the file enrollment by age, gender, attendance status, and level of student: Fall 2012 (Provisional release) as reported by the National Center for Education Statistics (http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds).
   
2. The percentage of minorities (American Indians or Alaska Natives, Asians or Pacific Islanders, Blacks or African Americans, and Hispanics) among full-time students is calculated from the 12-month Unduplicated Head Count Data File, 2011-12 (Provisional release) as reported by the National Center for Education Statistics (http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds).
   

Florida International Univ is in Miami, FL, is public, is in the Sun Belt Conference, research intensive, more than 50% Black, Hispanic, Asian, American Indian, or Alaska Native, has a Phi Beta Kappa chapter, has a law school, has a nursing major, offers a Doctor of Medicine degree, offers on-campus housing, plays division I/FBS football, requires test scores for undergrad admissions, its top major is psychology, is on the semester system, its top Masters major is business administration and management, its top Doctoral major is law, its top Associates major is liberal arts and sciences/liberal studies, and enrolls 20,000 or more students.

• USNews law school ranking (105th place)
• Webometrics world ranking (227th place)
• PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (479th place)
• research spending ($74.2M)
• average full-time teaching salary ($83,646)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($18,816)
• cost of a shared room ($7,792)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($6,417)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($5,514)
• average undergrad student loan ($5,468)
• endowment per full-time student ($4,958)
• research spending per student ($1,225)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (193.2%)
• undergrads who get financial aid (93%)
• in-state freshmen (84.7%)
• full-time retention rate (82%)
• undergrads among full-time students (81.2%)
• minorities (76.7%)
• Hispanics (60.4%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (54%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (53.3%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (28%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (26.9%)
• grad students who are under 25 years old (23.6%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 17.7%)
• Blacks or African Americans (13.3%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (10.8%)
• foreign students (6.3%)
• Asians (2.9%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.1%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -15%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (530)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (530)
• 25th percentile SAT writing score (520)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (610)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (610)
• 75th percentile SAT writing score (600)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (6)
• average January temperature (66.6 degrees)
• dorm capacity (3,016)
• first-year applicants (15,863)
• foreign students (3,841)
• full-time grad students (5,922)
• full-time undergrads (24,022)
• grad students (8,696)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• total 75th percentile SAT score (1,820)
• undergrads (37,475)
• yearly for-credit students (60,592)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (1.4)
• students per faculty member (26)
• annual rainfall (64.1 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.16)
• elevation (1 meter)

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