beat U of Montana (41st place) and Texas Woman's Univ (93rd place).

1. The 2012 Forbes Best Buys ranking is archived at http://www.esf.edu/welcome/Forbes_Best_Buys_2012.pdf.
   
2. Information on majors and programs of study is from the Completions Data File, 2011-12 (Provisional release) as reported by the National Center for Education Statistics (http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds). Top majors are the ones that have the most conferred degrees. If it says "is in" rather than just "is", then various top majors were combined into a new attribute. For example, colleges whose top major is "in engineering" will include a college whose top major is chemical engineering, another whose top major is electrical engineering, and so on.
   

U of North Florida is in Jacksonville, FL, is public, grants doctorates, has a nursing major, offers on-campus housing, requires test scores for undergrad admissions, its top major is mass communication/media studies, is on the semester system, its top Masters major is business administration and management, its top Doctoral major is physical therapy/therapist, its top Associates major is liberal arts and sciences/liberal studies, and enrolls from 10,000 to 19,999 students.

• Forbes Best Buy ranking (26th place)
• PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (527th place)
• research spending ($8.7M)
• average full-time teaching salary ($64,656)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($18,624)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($6,085)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($5,612)
• average undergrad student loan ($5,506)
• endowment per full-time student ($5,356)
• cost of a shared room ($4,900)
• research spending per student ($453)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (231.9%)
• undergrads who get financial aid (96%)
• in-state freshmen (94.9%)
• undergrads among full-time students (88.9%)
• full-time retention rate (83%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (56.3%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (34%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (33%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (24.4%)
• minorities (22.3%)
• grad students who are under 25 years old (21.9%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (17.7%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 12.1%)
• Blacks or African Americans (9.9%)
• Hispanics (7.6%)
• Asians (4.6%)
• foreign students (2.2%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.2%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -10.8%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (540)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (530)
• 25th percentile SAT writing score (500)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (620)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (620)
• 75th percentile SAT writing score (590)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• average January temperature (54.1 degrees)
• dorm capacity (2,900)
• first-year applicants (10,412)
• foreign students (421)
• full-time grad students (723)
• full-time undergrads (10,308)
• grad students (1,803)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• total 75th percentile SAT score (1,830)
• undergrads (14,398)
• yearly for-credit students (19,183)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (0.7)
• students per faculty member (20)
• annual rainfall (51.7 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.16)
• elevation (11 meters)

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