after Mercer Univ (105th place, $72,183), closest are U of Arkansas at Little Rock (113th place, $66,204), U of Montana (113th place, $63,777), U of Idaho (134th place, $71,540), and Southern Illinois Univ Carbondale (140th place, $67,751).

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. The 2014 US News Law School ranking is at http://grad-schools.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-law-schools.
   

Mercer Univ is in Macon, GA, is private and nonprofit, is in the Pioneer Football League, accepts the Common Application, grants doctorates, has a law school, has a nursing major, has its top Masters major in education, has its top major in nursing, offers a Doctor of Medicine degree, offers on-campus housing, requires test scores for undergrad admissions, is on the semester system, its top Doctoral major is law, and enrolls from 5,000 to 9,999 students.

• USNews law school ranking (105th place)
• PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (619th place)
• research spending ($21.6M)
• average full-time teaching salary ($72,183)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($32,466)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($32,466)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($27,784)
• endowment per full-time student ($22,493)
• average undergrad student loan ($7,620)
• cost of a shared room ($5,244)
• research spending per student ($2,229)
• undergrads who get financial aid (100%)
• in-state freshmen (83.6%)
• full-time retention rate (82%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (65%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (45.7%)
• minorities (41%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (34%)
• Blacks or African Americans (32.5%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (9.9%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 7.6%)
• Asians (5.6%)
• foreign students (3.1%)
• Hispanics (2.5%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.4%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -7%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (540)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (530)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (640)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (630)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (4)
• average January temperature (46.3 degrees)
• dorm capacity (1,828)
• first-year applicants (3,519)
• foreign students (303)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (2)
• yearly for-credit students (9,678)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (1.86)
• students per faculty member (13)
• annual rainfall (45.7 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.05)
• elevation (135 meters)

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