MIT is first with $1.128B.

Incidentally, both are top-100 happiest schools.

beat Stanford ($848.1M), Duke ($758.6M), U of Wisconsin-Madison ($738.7M), and U of Michigan ($713.2M), and others, ending with Amridge Univ ($0.0K).

914 out of the other 3,121 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for research spending, e.g., U of Phoenix-Online Campus.

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).
   

Johns Hopkins is in Baltimore, MD, is private and nonprofit, is in the Centennial Conference, research intensive, a top-100 happiest school, a member of the American Association of Universities, accepts the Common Application, has a Phi Beta Kappa chapter, has a nursing major, has its top major in nursing, offers a Doctor of Medicine degree, offers on-campus housing, requires test scores for undergrad admissions, was attended by a U.S. President, is on the semester system, its top Masters major is international relations and affairs, its top Doctoral major is medicine, and enrolls 20,000 or more students.

• Webometrics world ranking (14th place)
• Times Higher Education world ranking (15th place)
• ARWU world ranking (17th place)
• Wall St. Journal feeder school ranking (24th place)
• PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (79th place)
• research spending ($1.072B)
• endowment per full-time student ($124,124)
• average full-time teaching salary ($107,742)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($43,390)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($43,390)
• research spending per student ($42,232)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($34,469)
• cost of a shared room ($7,668)
• average undergrad student loan ($6,478)
• full-time retention rate (97%)
• undergrads who get financial aid (60%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (48.8%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 38.8%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (34%)
• minorities (25.4%)
• foreign students (14.4%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (13%)
• Asians (12.7%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (10.8%)
• in-state freshmen (9.3%)
• Blacks or African Americans (7%)
• Hispanics (5.4%)
• disabled students (4%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.3%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -28%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (660)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (640)
• 25th percentile SAT writing score (650)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (770)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (740)
• 75th percentile SAT writing score (750)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• average January temperature (32.6 degrees)
• dorm capacity (2,680)
• first-year applicants (21,313)
• foreign students (3,662)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (27)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (18)
• total 75th percentile SAT score (2,260)
• yearly for-credit students (25,372)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (0.2)
• students per faculty member (10)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.17)
• elevation (72 meters)

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