surpassed Florida State College at Jacksonville (360.1%), New College of Florida (339.5%), Lake-Sumter Community College (321.6%), and Florida Gulf Coast Univ (313.8%), and others, ending with Florida Inst. of Technology-Florida Tech Online (0%).

366 out of the other 3,121 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for non-resident tuition & fees surcharge, e.g., Excelsior College.

1. Tuition and fees are from the Institutional Characteristics Data File 2012-2013 (Provisional Release) as reported by the National Center for Education Statistics (http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds).
   

U of Florida is in Gainesville, FL, is public, is in the Southeastern Conference, research intensive, a top-100 party school, a land-grant institution, a top-100 happiest school, a member of the American Association of Universities, 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 business administration and management, its top Doctoral major is pharmacy, its top Associates major is liberal arts and sciences/liberal studies, and enrolls 20,000 or more students.

• Forbes Best Buy ranking (10th place)
• Webometrics world ranking (18th place)
• USNews MBA ranking (36th place)
• USNews law school ranking (46th place)
• ARWU world ranking (71st place)
• Times Higher Education world ranking (128th place)
• PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (202nd place)
• research spending ($466.6M)
• average full-time teaching salary ($92,599)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($28,420)
• endowment per full-time student ($23,548)
• research spending per student ($8,231)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($6,143)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($6,099)
• average undergrad student loan ($5,380)
• cost of a shared room ($5,240)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (362.6%)
• undergrads who get financial aid (98%)
• full-time retention rate (96%)
• in-state freshmen (88.3%)
• undergrads among full-time students (65.7%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (58.1%)
• grad students who are under 25 years old (34.1%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (32%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (31%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 30%)
• minorities (29.3%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (19.7%)
• Hispanics (14%)
• foreign students (8.7%)
• Blacks or African Americans (7.5%)
• Asians (7.4%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (5.6%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.4%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -23.1%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (590)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (580)
• 25th percentile SAT writing score (570)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (690)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (670)
• 75th percentile SAT writing score (670)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (270)
• average January temperature (54.3 degrees)
• dorm capacity (10,858)
• first-year applicants (27,419)
• foreign students (4,955)
• full-time grad students (12,624)
• full-time undergrads (30,241)
• grad students (17,137)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (14)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (5)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (12)
• total 75th percentile SAT score (2,030)
• undergrads (32,776)
• yearly for-credit students (56,683)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (0.8)
• students per faculty member (21)
• annual rainfall (47.3 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.12)
• elevation (23 meters)

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