beat out by U of Mississippi ($52.4M), Florida Atlantic Univ ($21.8M), and Illinois State Univ ($19.3M).

Incidentally, all 4 are an NCAA member.

beat American Samoa Community College ($2.4M), U of Northern Iowa ($1.8M), West Chester U of Pennsylvania ($1.7M), and Northeastern State Univ ($1.3M), and others, ending with Athens State Univ ($0.0K).

1 out of the other 67 colleges was ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for research spending, i.e., Penn State-Lehigh Valley.

1. 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).
   
2. Information on majors and programs of study is from the Completions Data File, 2011-12 (Provisional release) as reported by the National Center for Education Statistics (http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds). Top majors are the ones that have the most conferred degrees. If it says "is in" rather than just "is", then various top majors were combined into a new attribute. For example, colleges whose top major is "in engineering" will include a college whose top major is chemical engineering, another whose top major is electrical engineering, and so on.
   

Pittsburg State Univ is in Pittsburg, KS, is public, is in the Mid-America Intercollegiate Ath Assoc, degree-granting, has a nursing major, has its top Masters major in education, has its top major in education, offers on-campus housing, requires test scores for undergrad admissions, is on the semester system, its top Associates major is electrical/electronics equipment installation and repair, and enrolls from 5,000 to 9,999 students.

• PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (777th place)
• research spending ($2.8M)
• average full-time teaching salary ($62,405)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($14,518)
• endowment per full-time student ($8,275)
• cost of typical room and board ($6,538)
• average undergrad student loan ($5,626)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($5,494)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($4,016)
• research spending per student ($312)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (164.3%)
• undergrads who get financial aid (86%)
• undergrads among full-time students (84.6%)
• full-time retention rate (69%)
• in-state freshmen (67.6%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (62%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (49%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (41%)
• grad students who are under 25 years old (21.5%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 16.3%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (16.3%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (14.7%)
• minorities (13.4%)
• Hispanics (7.9%)
• foreign students (3.3%)
• Blacks or African Americans (3.2%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (1.7%)
• Asians (0.6%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -14%)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (13)
• dorm capacity (1,283)
• first-year applicants (2,771)
• foreign students (293)
• full-time grad students (416)
• full-time undergrads (5,734)
• grad students (1,123)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• undergrads (6,166)
• yearly for-credit students (8,922)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (1.2)
• students per faculty member (19)
• annual rainfall (46.9 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.02)
• elevation (280 meters)

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