after U of Hawaii at Manoa ($11,915, 480), closest are U of Arizona ($8,956, 480), U of Iowa ($8,815, 470), Mississippi State Univ ($7,723, 470), and U of Illinois at Chicago ($7,676, 470), ending with Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College ($0.0, 200).

40 out of the other 839 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for research spending per student, e.g., Rutgers Univ-Newark.

1. 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).
   
2. College SAT data 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). Note that only about 41% of all colleges in this dataset reported at least one numeric SAT score.
   

U of Hawaii at Manoa is in Honolulu, HI, is public, is in the Mountain West Conference, research intensive, a land-grant institution, has a Phi Beta Kappa chapter, has a law school, has a nursing major, 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 law, and enrolls 20,000 or more students.

• USNews law school ranking (80th place)
• ARWU world ranking (151st place)
• PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (468th place)
• Webometrics world ranking (721st place)
• research spending ($284.7M)
• average full-time teaching salary ($92,824)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($25,652)
• research spending per student ($11,915)
• average undergrad student loan ($11,275)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($9,404)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($6,781)
• cost of a shared room ($5,144)
• endowment per full-time student ($1,876)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (172.8%)
• undergrads who get financial aid (80%)
• full-time retention rate (79%)
• undergrads among full-time students (71.7%)
• in-state freshmen (67.5%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (55.3%)
• minorities (43.7%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (42%)
• Asians (35.4%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (33.5%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (31%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 22.8%)
• grad students who are under 25 years old (18.6%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (18.2%)
• foreign students (7.2%)
• Hispanics (6.8%)
• disabled students (5%)
• Blacks or African Americans (1.2%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.3%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -18.5%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (500)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (480)
• 25th percentile SAT writing score (470)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (600)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (580)
• 75th percentile SAT writing score (560)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (83)
• average January temperature (72.9 degrees)
• dorm capacity (3,719)
• first-year applicants (6,541)
• foreign students (1,713)
• full-time grad students (2,952)
• full-time undergrads (11,975)
• grad students (5,771)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (4)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• total 75th percentile SAT score (1,740)
• undergrads (14,655)
• yearly for-credit students (23,898)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (3.65)
• students per faculty member (13)
• annual rainfall (22.4 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.14)
• elevation (3 meters)

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