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many dorms

Rutgers has the 2nd-highest dorm capacity (15,870) of all the 3,122 colleges. Those 15,870 represent 0.5% of the total among all 3,122 colleges, whose average is 1,558.



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U of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is first with 16,018.

Incidentally, both are members of the American Association of Universities.

beat Michigan State (15,442), UC Irvine (15,435), UCLA (14,533), and Penn State (13,433), and others, ending with Franciscan School of Theology (5).

1,263 out of the other 3,121 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for dorm capacity, e.g., U of Phoenix-Online Campus.

References

  1. Information on dorm capacity and on-campus housing 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).

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Rutgers is in New Brunswick, NJ, is public, is in the Big East Conference, research intensive, a top-100 party school, a land-grant institution, a top-100 happiest school, a member of the American Association of Universities, has a Phi Beta Kappa chapter, has had a Final Four men's basketball team, offers on-campus housing, plays division I/FBS football, requires test scores for undergrad admissions, its top major is psychology, is on the semester system, its top Masters major is social work, its top Doctoral major is pharmacy, and enrolls 20,000 or more students.

  • Webometrics world ranking (36th place)
  • ARWU world ranking (61st place)
  • USNews MBA ranking (61st place)
  • Times Higher Education world ranking (103rd place)
  • PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (122nd place)
  • research spending ($301.5M)
  • average full-time teaching salary ($109,542)
  • out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($26,393)
  • endowment per full-time student ($13,462)
  • in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($13,073)
  • average grant aid to undergrads ($11,392)
  • average undergrad student loan ($8,042)
  • cost of a shared room ($7,042)
  • research spending per student ($6,730)
  • non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (101.9%)
  • full-time retention rate (91%)
  • in-state freshmen (86.8%)
  • undergrads who get financial aid (79%)
  • undergrads among full-time students (78.1%)
  • undergrads who receive student loans (60%)
  • ratio of female full-time freshmen (49.9%)
  • minorities (39%)
  • undergrads who get Pell grants (31%)
  • grad students who are under 25 years old (30.3%)
  • average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 24.4%)
  • Asians (20.9%)
  • tuition & fees increase over three years (17.2%)
  • Hispanics (10.3%)
  • Blacks or African Americans (7.7%)
  • foreign students (6.6%)
  • undergrads who are 25 years or older (6.3%)
  • American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.1%)
  • average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -19.6%)
  • 25th percentile SAT math score (560)
  • 25th percentile SAT reading score (520)
  • 25th percentile SAT writing score (540)
  • 75th percentile SAT math score (680)
  • 75th percentile SAT reading score (630)
  • 75th percentile SAT writing score (650)
  • alumni who played in the National Football League (87)
  • average January temperature (30.5 degrees)
  • dorm capacity (15,870)
  • first-year applicants (28,635)
  • foreign students (2,968)
  • full-time grad students (5,293)
  • full-time undergrads (30,038)
  • grad students (8,841)
  • members of the National Academy of Sciences (23)
  • men's basketball Final Four appearances (1)
  • Rhodes Scholar alumni (8)
  • total 75th percentile SAT score (1,960)
  • undergrads (31,593)
  • yearly for-credit students (44,809)
  • on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (1.84)
  • students per faculty member (14)
  • annual rainfall (48.9 inches)
  • elevation (22 meters)

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