after U of South Florida ($249.7M, $79,618), closest are Washington State Univ ($198.2M, $78,330), Oregon State ($192.4M, $73,747), Mississippi State Univ ($177.3M, $71,512), and U of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio ($170.3M, $77,957), ending with Williamson Christian College ($0.0K, $3,939).

720 out of the other 2,444 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for research spending, e.g., U of Phoenix-Online Campus.

1. Teaching salaries for men and women are from the Salary Outlays for Full-time Instructional Staff by Contract Length, Gender, and Academic Rank: 2011-12 (Final/revised release) by the National Center for Education Statistics (http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds).
   
2. 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).
   

U of South Florida is in Tampa, FL, is public, is in the Big East Conference, research intensive, has a nursing major, has its top Masters major in nursing, 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 Doctoral major is medicine, its top Associates major is liberal arts and sciences/liberal studies, and enrolls 20,000 or more students.

• Forbes Best Buy ranking (40th place)
• Webometrics world ranking (176th place)
• ARWU world ranking (201st place)
• Times Higher Education world ranking (276th place)
• PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (484th place)
• research spending ($249.7M)
• average full-time teaching salary ($79,618)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($16,257)
• endowment per full-time student ($8,675)
• average undergrad student loan ($7,484)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($7,353)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($6,334)
• cost of a shared room ($5,460)
• research spending per student ($5,055)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (156.7%)
• undergrads who get financial aid (97%)
• full-time retention rate (90%)
• in-state freshmen (84.9%)
• undergrads among full-time students (75.7%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (57%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (46%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (44%)
• minorities (33.5%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 25.4%)
• grad students who are under 25 years old (24.6%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (22.3%)
• Hispanics (16%)
• Blacks or African Americans (11.3%)
• Asians (5.9%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (5.7%)
• foreign students (4.3%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.3%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -20.3%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (540)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (530)
• 25th percentile SAT writing score (510)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (640)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (630)
• 75th percentile SAT writing score (600)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (25)
• average January temperature (60.8 degrees)
• dorm capacity (5,700)
• first-year applicants (28,547)
• foreign students (2,110)
• full-time grad students (5,439)
• full-time undergrads (23,773)
• grad students (9,991)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• total 75th percentile SAT score (1,870)
• undergrads (31,125)
• yearly for-credit students (49,408)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (1.46)
• students per faculty member (24)
• annual rainfall (46.3 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.24)
• elevation (11 meters)

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