beat out by U of Missouri-Columbia (2,186) and Washington Univ in St Louis (2,098).

Incidentally, all 3 are an NCAA member.

beat Missouri U of Science and Technology (1,196), U of Missouri-Kansas City (1,170), Lindenwood Univ (1,126), and Saint Louis Univ (1,109), and 88 others, ending with ITT Technical Institute-Earth City (0).

1. 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).
   
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).
   

Missouri State Univ-Springfield is in Springfield, MO, is public, is in the Missouri Valley Conference, grants doctorates, has a nursing major, offers on-campus housing, requires test scores for undergrad admissions, its top major is accounting, is on the semester system, its top Masters major is business administration and management, its top Doctoral major is physical therapy/therapist, and enrolls 20,000 or more students.

• PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (685th place)
• Webometrics world ranking (1,053rd place)
• research spending ($16.8M)
• average full-time teaching salary ($62,707)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($13,138)
• cost of typical room and board ($6,844)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($6,792)
• average undergrad student loan ($5,101)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($4,880)
• endowment per full-time student ($3,732)
• research spending per student ($710)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (93.4%)
• in-state freshmen (89%)
• undergrads who get financial aid (88%)
• full-time retention rate (75%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (69%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (62.4%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (35%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 21%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (13.7%)
• minorities (7.7%)
• foreign students (6.1%)
• Blacks or African Americans (3.1%)
• Hispanics (2.5%)
• Asians (1.4%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.7%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -17.3%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (490)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (480)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (615)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (590)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (10)
• average January temperature (32.6 degrees)
• dorm capacity (3,907)
• first-year applicants (7,342)
• foreign students (1,448)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• yearly for-credit students (23,667)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (0.3)
• students per faculty member (21)
• annual rainfall (45.6 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.33)
• elevation (404 meters)

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