after Idaho State Univ ($17.3M, $56,974), closest are Wheeling Jesuit Univ ($10.9M, $52,348), Clark Atlanta Univ ($10.6M, $56,425), U Central Del Caribe ($8.7M, $28,582), and Western Oregon Univ ($8.1M, $52,411), ending with Williamson Christian College ($0.0K, $3,939).

532 out of the other 1,348 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).
   

Idaho State Univ is in Pocatello, ID, is public, is in the Big Sky Conference, open admission, research intensive, has a carpentry program, has a culinary program, has a grooming arts program, has a massaging or bodywork program, has a nursing major, has an electrician program, has an emergency medical technology program, has its top major in nursing, offers on-campus housing, is on the semester system, its top Masters major is business administration and management, its top Doctoral major is pharmacy, its top Associates major is energy management and systems technology/technician, and enrolls from 10,000 to 19,999 students.

• PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (379th place)
• Webometrics world ranking (994th place)
• research spending ($17.3M)
• average full-time teaching salary ($56,974)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($17,870)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($6,070)
• average undergrad student loan ($6,033)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($5,226)
• endowment per full-time student ($3,531)
• cost of a shared room ($2,520)
• research spending per student ($968)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (194.4%)
• undergrads who get financial aid (93%)
• in-state freshmen (86.1%)
• undergrads among full-time students (85.9%)
• full-time retention rate (62%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (59%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (54%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (38.5%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 21.9%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (21%)
• grad students who are under 25 years old (16.6%)
• minorities (10.1%)
• Hispanics (6.4%)
• foreign students (3.5%)
• Asians (1.4%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (1.3%)
• Blacks or African Americans (1%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -18%)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (25)
• average January temperature (25.8 degrees)
• dorm capacity (1,202)
• foreign students (630)
• full-time grad students (1,260)
• full-time undergrads (7,441)
• grad students (1,947)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• undergrads (11,905)
• yearly for-credit students (17,847)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (0.4)
• students per faculty member (16)
• annual rainfall (13.2 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.05)
• elevation (1,427 meters)

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