after Northern Illinois Univ (6,000, 50%), closest are U of California-Riverside (5,880, 59%), Stephen F Austin State Univ (4,898, 50%), Southern Illinois Univ Carbondale (4,622, 51%), and Georgia State Univ (4,129, 55%), ending with Family of Faith College (7, 67%).

765 out of the other 1,320 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).
   
2. 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).
   

Northern Illinois Univ is in Dekalb, IL, is public, is in the Mid-American Conference, research intensive, has a law school, has a nursing major, 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.

• Webometrics world ranking (305th place)
• PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (349th place)
• research spending ($24.0M)
• average full-time teaching salary ($71,168)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($21,367)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($11,728)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($9,040)
• cost of a shared room ($7,750)
• average undergrad student loan ($7,287)
• research spending per student ($917)
• endowment per full-time student ($172)
• undergrads who get financial aid (95%)
• in-state freshmen (94.6%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (82.2%)
• undergrads among full-time students (75.7%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (75%)
• full-time retention rate (70%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (50%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (49.2%)
• minorities (26.7%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (22.5%)
• grad students who are under 25 years old (22.5%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 16.2%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (15.6%)
• Blacks or African Americans (12.5%)
• Hispanics (9.3%)
• Asians (4.8%)
• foreign students (3.3%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.1%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -14%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (440)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (440)
• 25th percentile SAT writing score (440)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (580)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (570)
• 75th percentile SAT writing score (540)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (53)
• average January temperature (20.3 degrees)
• dorm capacity (6,000)
• first-year applicants (23,720)
• foreign students (874)
• full-time grad students (2,220)
• full-time undergrads (14,494)
• grad students (5,317)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• total 75th percentile SAT score (1,690)
• undergrads (16,552)
• yearly for-credit students (26,160)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (1.1)
• students per faculty member (16)
• annual rainfall (37.0 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.07)
• elevation (262 meters)

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