beat Rutgers (15,870), Michigan State (15,442), UC Irvine (15,435), and UCLA (14,533), and others, ending with Pacific States Univ (5).

1,263 out of the other 3,121 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for dorm capacity, e.g., U of Phoenix-Online Campus.

1. Information on dorm capacity and on-campus housing 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).
   

U of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is in Champaign, IL, is public, is in the Big Ten Conference, research intensive, a top-100 party school, a land-grant institution, a top-100 happiest school, a member of the American Association of Universities, grants medical degrees, has a Phi Beta Kappa chapter, has a culinary program, has a law school, has had a Final Four men's basketball team, 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 accounting, its top Doctoral major is law, and enrolls 20,000 or more students.

• ARWU world ranking (25th place)
• Times Higher Education world ranking (29th place)
• Webometrics world ranking (34th place)
• USNews MBA ranking (47th place)
• USNews law school ranking (47th place)
• PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (97th place)
• Forbes Best Buy ranking (99th place)
• research spending ($380.2M)
• average full-time teaching salary ($99,876)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($31,116)
• endowment per full-time student ($20,440)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($15,489)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($11,411)
• cost of typical room and board ($10,332)
• research spending per student ($7,973)
• average undergrad student loan ($6,622)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (100.9%)
• full-time retention rate (94%)
• in-state freshmen (75.5%)
• undergrads among full-time students (72.5%)
• undergrads who get financial aid (68%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (45%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (43%)
• grad students who are under 25 years old (38.5%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 25.9%)
• minorities (22.6%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (21%)
• foreign students (18.8%)
• Asians (11.2%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (9.2%)
• Hispanics (6.2%)
• Blacks or African Americans (5.1%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (2.1%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.1%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -20.6%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (680)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (550)
• 25th percentile SAT writing score (570)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (790)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (680)
• 75th percentile SAT writing score (680)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (263)
• dorm capacity (16,018)
• first-year applicants (31,454)
• foreign students (8,956)
• full-time grad students (9,586)
• full-time undergrads (31,118)
• grad students (12,239)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (26)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (5)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (9)
• total 75th percentile SAT score (2,150)
• undergrads (32,281)
• yearly for-credit students (47,684)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (0.9)
• students per faculty member (20)
• annual rainfall (41.0 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.15)
• elevation (220 meters)

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