closest are Portland State Univ (41,435, 4,978), DeVry Univ-Illinois (41,071, 5,795), Ashford Univ (169,843, 5,951), and U of Texas at Arlington (46,679, 9,550), ending with UCLA (42,057, 61,556).

27 colleges were ruled out due to 2 missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for yearly for-credit students alone, 20 for first-year applicants alone, and 5 for both together.

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 number of yearly for-credit students is 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).
   

Nova Southeastern Univ is in Fort Lauderdale, FL, is private and nonprofit, research intensive, more than 50% Black, Hispanic, Asian, American Indian, or Alaska Native, grants medical degrees, has a law school, has a nursing major, has its top major in nursing, offers on-campus housing, requires test scores for undergrad admissions, is on the trimester system, its top Masters major is business administration and management, its top Doctoral major is law, its top Associates major is early childhood education and teaching, and enrolls 20,000 or more students.

• PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (376th place)
• Webometrics world ranking (849th place)
• research spending ($8.4M)
• average full-time teaching salary ($89,119)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($24,414)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($24,414)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($13,199)
• average undergrad student loan ($7,255)
• cost of a shared room ($6,916)
• endowment per full-time student ($2,168)
• research spending per student ($223)
• undergrads who get financial aid (96%)
• full-time retention rate (72%)
• in-state freshmen (68.5%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (63.5%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (59%)
• minorities (52.2%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (42%)
• Blacks or African Americans (25.7%)
• Hispanics (21.7%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (15.7%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 11.6%)
• Asians (4.6%)
• foreign students (3.2%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.2%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -10.4%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (470)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (470)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (590)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (580)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• average January temperature (66.3 degrees)
• dorm capacity (1,472)
• first-year applicants (4,257)
• foreign students (1,192)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• yearly for-credit students (37,797)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (0.2)
• students per faculty member (18)
• annual rainfall (66.5 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.13)
• elevation (1 meter)

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