outdid Clear Creek Baptist Bible College, U of the Cumberlands, Mid-Continent Univ, and Union College, and 50 others, ending with Daymar College-Bellevue.

1. College geographic information is from the IPEDS Directory, 2012-13 (Provisional release) by the National Center for Education Statistics (http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds).
   

Murray State Univ is in Murray, KY, is public, is in the Ohio Valley Conference, grants doctorates, has a nursing major, offers on-campus housing, requires test scores for undergrad admissions, its top major is general studies, is on the semester system, its top Masters major is business/commerce, its top Associates major is liberal arts and sciences/liberal studies, and enrolls from 10,000 to 19,999 students.

• Forbes Best Buy ranking (96th place)
• PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (806th place)
• research spending ($1.5M)
• average full-time teaching salary ($63,941)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($18,600)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($8,086)
• average undergrad student loan ($7,060)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($6,840)
• endowment per full-time student ($6,719)
• cost of a shared room ($4,112)
• research spending per student ($120)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (171.9%)
• undergrads who get financial aid (99%)
• undergrads among full-time students (82.1%)
• full-time retention rate (70%)
• in-state freshmen (61.3%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (61%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (60.3%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (42%)
• grad students who are under 25 years old (22.2%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (20%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 17%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (14.6%)
• minorities (10.1%)
• Blacks or African Americans (7.4%)
• foreign students (5.8%)
• disabled students (5%)
• Hispanics (1.5%)
• Asians (1%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.2%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -14.6%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (440)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (395)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (573)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (548)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (19)
• average January temperature (36.7 degrees)
• dorm capacity (3,065)
• first-year applicants (4,282)
• foreign students (731)
• full-time grad students (714)
• full-time undergrads (7,090)
• grad students (1,941)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• undergrads (8,891)
• yearly for-credit students (12,676)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (1.16)
• students per faculty member (16)
• annual rainfall (55.6 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.11)
• elevation (167 meters)

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