beat New Jersey Inst. of Technology (1,774), Princeton (1,694), Seattle Community College-Central Campus (1,545), and Florida Inst. of Technology (1,496), and 273 others, ending with Northcentral Univ (0).

1. The number of foreign students is from the 12-month Unduplicated Head Count Data File, 2011-12 (Provisional release) as reported by the National Center for Education Statistics (http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds).
   
2. The college's size is from the IPEDS Directory, 2012-13 (Provisional release) by the National Center for Education Statistics (http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds).
   

Illinois Inst. of Technology is in Chicago, IL, is private and nonprofit, research intensive, has a law school, offers on-campus housing, accepts the Common Application, requires test scores for undergrad admissions, its top major is architecture, is on the semester system, its top Masters major is finance, its top Doctoral major is law, and enrolls from 5,000 to 9,999 students.

• PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (52nd place)
• USNews law school ranking (68th place)
• Webometrics world ranking (453rd place)
• research spending ($56.6M)
• average full-time teaching salary ($98,711)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($36,413)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($36,413)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($27,492)
• endowment per full-time student ($24,565)
• research spending per student ($6,522)
• average undergrad student loan ($6,408)
• cost of a shared room ($5,546)
• undergrads who get financial aid (100%)
• full-time retention rate (87%)
• in-state freshmen (63.5%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (51%)
• foreign students (42.6%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (38%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (29.3%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (27.9%)
• minorities (16.2%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 7%)
• Asians (6.4%)
• Hispanics (5.5%)
• Blacks or African Americans (4.1%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.2%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -6.5%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (610)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (513)
• 25th percentile SAT writing score (520)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (710)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (630)
• 75th percentile SAT writing score (640)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (3)
• average January temperature (26.0 degrees)
• dorm capacity (2,231)
• first-year applicants (2,562)
• foreign students (3,698)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• total 75th percentile SAT score (1,980)
• yearly for-credit students (8,673)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (2.34)
• students per faculty member (12)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.33)
• elevation (177 meters)

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