closest are Arizona State (39th place, $2,212), Univ at Buffalo (74th place, $3,233), Boston Univ (57th place, $4,377), and U of Missouri-Columbia (63rd place, $4,637), 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.
   

Florida State Univ is in Tallahassee, FL, is public, is in the Atlantic Coast Conference, research intensive, a top-100 party school, has a Phi Beta Kappa chapter, has a law school, has a nursing major, has had a Final Four men's basketball team, 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 library and information science, its top Doctoral major is law, its top Associates major is liberal arts and sciences/liberal studies, and enrolls 20,000 or more students.

• Forbes Best Buy ranking (14th place)
• USNews law school ranking (48th place)
• Webometrics world ranking (77th place)
• ARWU world ranking (151st place)
• PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (459th place)
• research spending ($102.7M)
• average full-time teaching salary ($83,752)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($21,570)
• endowment per full-time student ($12,517)
• average undergrad student loan ($6,972)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($6,402)
• cost of a shared room ($5,694)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($4,615)
• research spending per student ($2,195)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (236.9%)
• undergrads who get financial aid (96%)
• full-time retention rate (91%)
• in-state freshmen (89.2%)
• undergrads among full-time students (79.1%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (59.7%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (42%)
• grad students who are under 25 years old (31.7%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (28%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 27.3%)
• minorities (26.4%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (13.5%)
• Hispanics (13.1%)
• Blacks or African Americans (10%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (7.2%)
• disabled students (6%)
• foreign students (4.1%)
• Asians (2.9%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.4%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -21.4%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (560)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (560)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (640)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (640)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (250)
• average January temperature (51.2 degrees)
• dorm capacity (6,566)
• first-year applicants (30,040)
• foreign students (1,897)
• full-time grad students (5,939)
• full-time undergrads (28,733)
• grad students (8,524)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (1)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (1)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (5)
• undergrads (32,171)
• yearly for-credit students (46,805)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (2.07)
• students per faculty member (26)
• annual rainfall (59.2 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.45)
• elevation (47 meters)

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