closest are Colorado State Univ-Fort Collins (135th place, 2.3%), U of Missouri-Columbia (63rd place, 2.4%), U of South Carolina-Columbia (144th place, 2.5%), and U of Kentucky (58th place, 2.5%), ending with UC Irvine (53rd place, 43%).

1. The percentage of ethnic groups or other types of students among all full-time students is calculated 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. The Webometrics world ranking of universities refers to the first 2014 version from Webometrics.info.
   

U of Nebraska-Lincoln is in Lincoln, NE, is public, is in the Big Ten Conference, research intensive, a land-grant institution, a top-100 happiest school, has a Phi Beta Kappa chapter, has a law school, has its top major in business, offers on-campus housing, plays division I/FBS football, requires test scores for undergrad admissions, is on the semester system, its top Masters major is business administration and management, its top Doctoral major is law, its top Associates major is fire prevention and safety technology/technician, and enrolls 20,000 or more students.

• USNews law school ranking (61st place)
• Forbes Best Buy ranking (95th place)
• Webometrics world ranking (162nd place)
• ARWU world ranking (201st place)
• Times Higher Education world ranking (251st place)
• PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (379th place)
• research spending ($147.9M)
• average full-time teaching salary ($88,576)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($20,647)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($7,897)
• endowment per full-time student ($7,502)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($6,511)
• average undergrad student loan ($5,504)
• research spending per student ($5,429)
• cost of a shared room ($5,092)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (161.5%)
• full-time retention rate (84%)
• undergrads who get financial aid (83%)
• undergrads among full-time students (78.9%)
• in-state freshmen (76.9%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (51%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (47.3%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 29.4%)
• grad students who are under 25 years old (27.1%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (24%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (15.9%)
• minorities (8.7%)
• foreign students (7.5%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (6.5%)
• Hispanics (3.8%)
• Blacks or African Americans (2.5%)
• Asians (2.1%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.3%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -22.7%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (540)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (510)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (680)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (660)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (330)
• average January temperature (24.4 degrees)
• dorm capacity (7,501)
• first-year applicants (10,350)
• foreign students (2,054)
• full-time grad students (2,814)
• full-time undergrads (17,766)
• grad students (5,104)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (2)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (22)
• undergrads (19,103)
• yearly for-credit students (27,233)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (0.4)
• students per faculty member (20)
• annual rainfall (30.9 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.63)
• elevation (356 meters)

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