trailed Marshall Univ (3,729), U of Wyoming (3,883), Louisiana Tech Univ (4,580), and U of South Alabama (4,770), and others, ending with UCLA (61,556).

1 out of the other 121 colleges was ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for first-year applicants, i.e., U of Toledo.

1. The number of total first-year applicants is from the Institutional Characteristics Data File 2012-2013 (Provisional Release) as reported by the National Center for Education Statistics (http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds).
   
2. Whether a college plays NCAA division I/FBS football was determined from the NCAA website in Feb 2014.
   

U of Louisiana-Monroe is in Monroe, LA, is public, is in the Sun Belt Conference, grants doctorates, has a nursing major, offers on-campus housing, plays division I/FBS football, requires test scores for undergrad admissions, its top major is general studies, is on the semester system, its top Masters major is business administration and management, its top Doctoral major is pharmacy, its top Associates major is occupational therapist assistant, and enrolls from 5,000 to 9,999 students.

• PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (525th place)
• research spending ($8.9M)
• average full-time teaching salary ($63,381)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($14,263)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($6,791)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($5,443)
• average undergrad student loan ($4,876)
• cost of a shared room ($3,830)
• endowment per full-time student ($2,988)
• research spending per student ($829)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (162%)
• undergrads who get financial aid (97%)
• in-state freshmen (89.7%)
• full-time retention rate (68%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (63.8%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (53%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (51%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (41.6%)
• minorities (28.5%)
• Blacks or African Americans (24.9%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 8.3%)
• Asians (1.8%)
• foreign students (1.5%)
• Hispanics (1.5%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.3%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -7.7%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (440)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (425)
• 25th percentile SAT writing score (420)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (570)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (540)
• 75th percentile SAT writing score (545)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (42)
• average January temperature (44.7 degrees)
• dorm capacity (1,853)
• first-year applicants (2,641)
• foreign students (159)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• total 75th percentile SAT score (1,655)
• yearly for-credit students (10,771)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (0.7)
• students per faculty member (24)
• annual rainfall (56.7 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.02)
• elevation (24 meters)

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