after Louisiana State Univ ($269.4M, $82,622), closest are U of South Florida ($249.7M, $79,618), Washington State Univ ($198.2M, $78,330), Oregon State ($192.4M, $73,747), and Mississippi State Univ ($177.3M, $71,512), ending with Williamson Christian College ($0.0K, $3,939).

727 out of the other 2,525 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for research spending, e.g., U of Phoenix-Online Campus.

1. Teaching salaries for men and women are from the Salary Outlays for Full-time Instructional Staff by Contract Length, Gender, and Academic Rank: 2011-12 (Final/revised release) 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).
   

Louisiana State Univ is in Baton Rouge, LA, is public, is in the Southeastern Conference, research intensive, a top-100 party school, a land-grant institution, grants medical degrees, has a Phi Beta Kappa chapter, has a law school, 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 biology/biological sciences, 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.

• Forbes Best Buy ranking (25th place)
• USNews MBA ranking (61st place)
• USNews law school ranking (76th place)
• ARWU world ranking (201st place)
• Webometrics world ranking (208th place)
• PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (229th place)
• research spending ($269.4M)
• average full-time teaching salary ($82,622)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($22,265)
• endowment per full-time student ($14,668)
• research spending per student ($8,368)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($7,284)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($6,989)
• cost of a shared room ($6,600)
• average undergrad student loan ($5,655)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (218.6%)
• undergrads who get financial aid (92%)
• full-time retention rate (83%)
• undergrads among full-time students (81.5%)
• in-state freshmen (78.6%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (54.8%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (53.9%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (37%)
• grad students who are under 25 years old (34%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 27.8%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (21%)
• minorities (17.8%)
• Blacks or African Americans (10.4%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (5.9%)
• foreign students (5.6%)
• disabled students (4%)
• Hispanics (4%)
• Asians (3%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.4%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -21.7%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (530)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (500)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (630)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (610)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (300)
• dorm capacity (5,571)
• first-year applicants (14,818)
• foreign students (1,803)
• full-time grad students (4,489)
• full-time undergrads (22,681)
• grad students (5,599)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (1)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (4)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (14)
• undergrads (24,626)
• yearly for-credit students (32,189)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (1.65)
• students per faculty member (23)
• annual rainfall (62.6 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.31)
• elevation (20 meters)

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