closest are West Chester U of Pennsylvania (13,966, 124), UC Merced (15,208, 135), Quinnipiac Univ (18,825, 157), and Hampton Univ (14,503, 167), ending with U of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (31,454, 8,956).

1,041 colleges were ruled out due to 1,036 missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for first-year applicants alone and 5 for both it and foreign students together.

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. The number of foreign students is from the 12-month Unduplicated Head Count Data File, 2011-12 (Provisional release) as reported by the National Center for Education Statistics (http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds).
   

Loyola of Maryland is in Baltimore, MD, is private and nonprofit, is Roman Catholic, accepts the Common Application, grants doctorates, has a Phi Beta Kappa chapter, has its top major in business, offers on-campus housing, is on the semester system, its top Masters major is business administration and management, its top Doctoral major is clinical psychology, and enrolls from 5,000 to 9,999 students.

• PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (52nd place)
• research spending ($1.1M)
• average full-time teaching salary ($80,769)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($42,426)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($42,426)
• endowment per full-time student ($29,062)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($23,919)
• cost of a shared room ($9,693)
• average undergrad student loan ($8,899)
• research spending per student ($161)
• full-time retention rate (88%)
• undergrads who get financial aid (70%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (59.9%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (56%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 24%)
• in-state freshmen (16.7%)
• minorities (15.8%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (14%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (12.8%)
• Blacks or African Americans (7.4%)
• disabled students (7%)
• Hispanics (5.2%)
• Asians (3%)
• foreign students (1.6%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.2%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -19.4%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (540)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (540)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (630)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (630)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (1)
• average January temperature (32.6 degrees)
• dorm capacity (3,299)
• first-year applicants (12,664)
• foreign students (108)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (1)
• yearly for-credit students (6,646)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (0.5)
• students per faculty member (12)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.05)
• elevation (111 meters)

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