closest are U of Alabama at Birmingham ($313.9M, 4.3%), Michigan State ($313.4M, 4.4%), Texas A&M-College Station ($423.6M, 4.5%), and Penn State ($693.4M, 4.8%), ending with UCSD ($610.0M, 39.4%).

679 colleges were ruled out due to 673 missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for research spending alone and 6 for both it and Asians together.

1. The percentage of ethnic groups or other types of students among all full-time students is calculated 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. 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 Iowa is in Iowa City, IA, is public, is in the Big Ten Conference, research intensive, a top-100 party school, a member of the American Association of Universities, has a Phi Beta Kappa chapter, has a hospital, has a law school, has a nursing major, has had a Final Four men's basketball team, offers a Doctor of Medicine degree, offers on-campus housing, plays division I/FBS football, requires test scores for undergrad admissions, its top major is finance, 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.

• USNews law school ranking (26th place)
• USNews MBA ranking (44th place)
• Forbes Best Buy ranking (60th place)
• Webometrics world ranking (61st place)
• ARWU world ranking (101st place)
• Times Higher Education world ranking (161st place)
• PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (262nd place)
• research spending ($294.0M)
• average full-time teaching salary ($99,010)
• endowment per full-time student ($36,388)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($26,279)
• cost of typical room and board ($9,170)
• research spending per student ($8,815)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($8,057)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($7,741)
• average undergrad student loan ($5,442)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (226.2%)
• full-time retention rate (86%)
• undergrads who get financial aid (81%)
• undergrads among full-time students (73%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (54%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (50%)
• in-state freshmen (47.5%)
• grad students who are under 25 years old (29.1%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 28.1%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (18.4%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (18%)
• foreign students (11.4%)
• minorities (10.5%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (8.9%)
• Hispanics (4.2%)
• Asians (3.3%)
• Blacks or African Americans (2.7%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.3%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -22%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (550)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (470)
• 25th percentile SAT writing score (490)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (690)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (630)
• 75th percentile SAT writing score (610)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (244)
• average January temperature (22.1 degrees)
• dorm capacity (5,913)
• first-year applicants (19,430)
• foreign students (3,815)
• full-time grad students (4,933)
• full-time undergrads (19,639)
• grad students (8,130)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (4)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (3)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (18)
• total 75th percentile SAT score (1,930)
• undergrads (21,999)
• yearly for-credit students (33,351)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (0.8)
• students per faculty member (16)
• annual rainfall (36.3 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.26)
• elevation (198 meters)

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