beat out by MIT (6,686), UMass Amherst (6,308), and Tufts (5,582).

Incidentally, all 4 are research intensive.

beat Lesley Univ (3,960), UMass-Boston (3,750), Simmons College (3,038), and Fitchburg State Univ (2,726), and others, ending with Mount Ida College (21).

65 out of the other 101 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for grad students, e.g., Boston Univ.

1. Information on numbers and ages of the undergrad and graduate student body is from the file enrollment by age, gender, attendance status, and level of student: Fall 2012 (Provisional release) as reported by the National Center for Education Statistics (http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds).
   
2. College geographic information is from the IPEDS Directory, 2012-13 (Provisional release) by the National Center for Education Statistics (http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds).
   

UMass-Lowell is in Lowell, MA, is public, research intensive, accepts the Common Application, has a nursing major, has its top Masters major in education, has its top major in business, offers on-campus housing, requires test scores for undergrad admissions, is on the semester system, its top Doctoral major is physical therapy/therapist, its top Associates major is information science/studies, and enrolls from 10,000 to 19,999 students.

• PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (80th place)
• Webometrics world ranking (750th place)
• research spending ($35.2M)
• average full-time teaching salary ($96,501)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($24,896)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($11,847)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($7,899)
• cost of a shared room ($6,854)
• average undergrad student loan ($6,352)
• endowment per full-time student ($4,573)
• research spending per student ($1,834)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (110.1%)
• undergrads who get financial aid (91%)
• in-state freshmen (89.4%)
• full-time retention rate (81%)
• undergrads among full-time students (75.4%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (73%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (33.7%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (33%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (29.8%)
• minorities (21%)
• grad students who are under 25 years old (19.4%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 17.1%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (9.7%)
• Asians (7.8%)
• Hispanics (6.9%)
• Blacks or African Americans (6.1%)
• foreign students (3.5%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.2%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -14.6%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (520)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (500)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (620)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (600)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• average January temperature (23.6 degrees)
• dorm capacity (3,377)
• first-year applicants (8,033)
• foreign students (665)
• full-time grad students (1,126)
• full-time undergrads (8,724)
• grad students (4,007)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• undergrads (12,287)
• yearly for-credit students (19,173)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (1.39)
• students per faculty member (17)
• annual rainfall (47.0 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.08)
• elevation (23 meters)

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