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Montana State Univ is in Bozeman, MT, is public, is in the Big Sky Conference, research intensive, a land-grant institution, has a nursing major, has its top Doctoral major in education, 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 Associates major is interior design, and enrolls from 10,000 to 19,999 students.

• PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (316th place)
• Webometrics world ranking (371st place)
• research spending ($125.9M)
• average full-time teaching salary ($67,694)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($20,062)
• cost of typical room and board ($8,070)
• research spending per student ($7,764)
• endowment per full-time student ($7,521)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($6,705)
• average undergrad student loan ($6,321)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($5,387)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (199.2%)
• undergrads who get financial aid (88%)
• full-time retention rate (74%)
• in-state freshmen (55%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (51%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (43.7%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (30%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 27.8%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (13.7%)
• minorities (6.1%)
• foreign students (4.5%)
• Hispanics (2.5%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (2.2%)
• Asians (0.8%)
• Blacks or African Americans (0.6%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -21.7%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (500)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (500)
• 25th percentile SAT writing score (470)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (640)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (630)
• 75th percentile SAT writing score (600)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (22)
• average January temperature (25.1 degrees)
• dorm capacity (3,800)
• first-year applicants (12,081)
• foreign students (724)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (10)
• total 75th percentile SAT score (1,870)
• yearly for-credit students (16,209)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (1.01)
• students per faculty member (18)
• annual rainfall (19.7 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.08)
• elevation (1,487 meters)

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