after U of Missouri-Columbia (63rd place, $79,704), closest are Oregon State (80th place, $73,747), Washington State Univ (116th place, $78,330), U of North Texas (164th place, $79,129), and U of South Florida (176th place, $79,618), ending with U of Louisiana at Lafayette (1,377th place, $69,085).

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. The Webometrics world ranking of universities refers to the first 2014 version from Webometrics.info.
   

U of Missouri-Columbia is in Columbia, MO, is public, is in the Southeastern Conference, research intensive, a top-100 party school, a land-grant institution, a member of the American Association of Universities, has a Phi Beta Kappa chapter, has a hospital, has a law school, has a nursing major, has its top Masters major in education, has its top major in business, offers a Doctor of Medicine degree, offers on-campus housing, plays division I/FBS football, requires test scores for undergrad admissions, is on the semester system, its top Doctoral major is law, and enrolls 20,000 or more students.

• USNews MBA ranking (52nd place)
• Webometrics world ranking (63rd place)
• USNews law school ranking (76th place)
• Forbes Best Buy ranking (94th place)
• ARWU world ranking (201st place)
• PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (294th place)
• Times Higher Education world ranking (301st place)
• research spending ($171.9M)
• average full-time teaching salary ($79,704)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($23,366)
• endowment per full-time student ($20,804)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($9,257)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($6,506)
• average undergrad student loan ($6,386)
• cost of a shared room ($5,564)
• research spending per student ($4,637)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (152.4%)
• undergrads who get financial aid (84%)
• full-time retention rate (84%)
• undergrads among full-time students (77.7%)
• in-state freshmen (63%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (53.2%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (53%)
• grad students who are under 25 years old (32.7%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 29.1%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (23%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (19.3%)
• minorities (12%)
• Blacks or African Americans (6.6%)
• foreign students (5.9%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (4.3%)
• Hispanics (2.6%)
• Asians (2.4%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.4%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -22.5%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (530)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (510)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (650)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (640)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (168)
• average January temperature (31.0 degrees)
• dorm capacity (7,177)
• first-year applicants (20,564)
• foreign students (2,186)
• full-time grad students (5,126)
• full-time undergrads (25,178)
• grad students (7,744)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (5)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (18)
• undergrads (26,960)
• yearly for-credit students (37,074)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (0.3)
• students per faculty member (20)
• annual rainfall (46.3 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.17)
• elevation (222 meters)

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