trailed Daniel Webster College (656), Rivier Univ (791), Colby-Sawyer College (3,323), and Franklin Pierce Univ (3,546), and others, ending with Dartmouth (22,385).

7 out of the other 18 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for first-year applicants, e.g., U of New Hampshire School of Law.

1. The number of total first-year applicants is from the Institutional Characteristics Data File 2012-2013 (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).
   

U of New Hampshire at Manchester is in Manchester, NH, is public, degree-granting, has its top major in business, requires test scores for undergrad admissions, is on the semester system, its top Associates major is liberal arts and sciences/liberal studies, and enrolls fewer than 1,000 students.

• research spending ($400K)
• average full-time teaching salary ($82,454)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($26,217)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($13,757)
• average undergrad student loan ($6,389)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($4,096)
• endowment per full-time student ($1,398)
• research spending per student ($215)
• in-state freshmen (100%)
• undergrads among full-time students (94.7%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (90.6%)
• undergrads who get financial aid (85%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (80%)
• full-time retention rate (67%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (49.3%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (31%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (29.8%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 21%)
• grad students who are under 25 years old (17%)
• minorities (6.7%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (6.6%)
• Hispanics (2.9%)
• Asians (1.8%)
• Blacks or African Americans (1.7%)
• foreign students (0.3%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.3%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -17.3%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (470)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (470)
• 25th percentile SAT writing score (440)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (580)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (570)
• 75th percentile SAT writing score (550)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• average January temperature (24.4 degrees)
• first-year applicants (157)
• foreign students (5)
• full-time grad students (2)
• full-time undergrads (586)
• grad students (47)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• total 75th percentile SAT score (1,700)
• undergrads (833)
• yearly for-credit students (1,878)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (0)
• students per faculty member (16)
• annual rainfall (44.6 inches)
• elevation (37 meters)

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