beat out by U of Minnesota-Twin Cities (6,347), U of Wisconsin-Madison (5,171), and Walden Univ (4,213).

Incidentally, all 4 enroll 20,000 or more students.

beat U of Iowa (3,815), U of Kansas (2,740), U of Missouri-Columbia (2,186), and Kansas State Univ (2,137), and others, ending with Blessing Rieman College of Nursing (0).

1 out of the other 358 colleges was ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for foreign students, i.e., Strayer Univ-Minnesota.

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. Distance calculations between two colleges use a mathematical formula for the distance on a sphere between two points.
   

Iowa State Univ is in Ames, IA, is public, is in the Big Twelve Conference, research intensive, a land-grant institution, a member of the American Association of Universities, grants medical degrees, has a Phi Beta Kappa chapter, 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 marketing/marketing management, is on the semester system, its top Masters major is business administration and management, its top Doctoral major is veterinary medicine, and enrolls 20,000 or more students.

• Webometrics world ranking (64th place)
• USNews MBA ranking (70th place)
• Forbes Best Buy ranking (82nd place)
• ARWU world ranking (151st place)
• Times Higher Education world ranking (183rd place)
• PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (234th place)
• research spending ($159.7M)
• average full-time teaching salary ($90,567)
• endowment per full-time student ($19,891)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($19,838)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($7,726)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($6,871)
• average undergrad student loan ($6,563)
• research spending per student ($4,843)
• cost of a shared room ($4,093)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (156.8%)
• undergrads who get financial aid (88%)
• full-time retention rate (86%)
• undergrads among full-time students (83.1%)
• in-state freshmen (60.6%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (56%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (44.7%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 29.5%)
• grad students who are under 25 years old (29.4%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (23%)
• foreign students (11.9%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (11%)
• minorities (8.9%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (6.1%)
• Hispanics (3.3%)
• Blacks or African Americans (2.8%)
• Asians (2.6%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.2%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -22.8%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (520)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (480)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (660)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (630)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (96)
• average January temperature (19.8 degrees)
• dorm capacity (10,635)
• first-year applicants (14,540)
• foreign students (3,925)
• full-time grad students (3,087)
• full-time undergrads (24,209)
• grad students (5,195)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (2)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (1)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (5)
• undergrads (25,553)
• yearly for-credit students (32,981)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (1.14)
• students per faculty member (18)
• annual rainfall (34.7 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.34)
• elevation (292 meters)

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