after U of Illinois at Chicago ($241.0M, 55%), closest are Georgia State Univ ($102.9M, 55%), U of California-Riverside ($95.9M, 59%), U of Puerto Rico-Mayaguez ($52.8M, 68%), and U of Texas at El Paso ($42.8M, 70%), ending with Polytechnic U of Puerto Rico-Miami Campus ($0.0K, 100%).

634 out of the other 1,137 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for research spending, e.g., U of Phoenix-Online Campus.

1. The data on undergrad loans, financial aid, and Pell grants are from the Student Financial Aid Data File, 2011-12 (Provisional release) as reported 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 Illinois at Chicago is in Chicago, IL, is public, research intensive, accepts the Common Application, has a Phi Beta Kappa chapter, has a hospital, has a nursing major, offers a Doctor of Medicine degree, offers on-campus housing, 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 medicine, and enrolls 20,000 or more students.

• Webometrics world ranking (146th place)
• ARWU world ranking (151st place)
• PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (166th place)
• Times Higher Education world ranking (191st place)
• research spending ($241.0M)
• average full-time teaching salary ($89,729)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($25,611)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($13,356)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($12,581)
• research spending per student ($7,676)
• cost of a shared room ($7,462)
• endowment per full-time student ($7,340)
• average undergrad student loan ($6,052)
• in-state freshmen (96.5%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (91.8%)
• undergrads who get financial aid (83%)
• full-time retention rate (78%)
• undergrads among full-time students (59.8%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (55%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (54.8%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (50%)
• minorities (42.5%)
• grad students who are under 25 years old (27.3%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 17.8%)
• Asians (17.5%)
• Hispanics (16.3%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (11.2%)
• Blacks or African Americans (8.6%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (8%)
• foreign students (7%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.1%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -15.1%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (510)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (470)
• 25th percentile SAT writing score (490)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (640)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (630)
• 75th percentile SAT writing score (620)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• average January temperature (26.0 degrees)
• dorm capacity (3,764)
• first-year applicants (14,380)
• foreign students (2,202)
• full-time grad students (7,690)
• full-time undergrads (15,381)
• grad students (11,197)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (1)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (1)
• total 75th percentile SAT score (1,890)
• undergrads (16,678)
• yearly for-credit students (31,400)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (0.6)
• students per faculty member (17)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.17)
• elevation (180 meters)

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