after New Mexico State Univ ($6,602, 420), closest are Gallaudet Univ ($6,096, 350), Tuskegee Univ ($5,767, 400), Fisk Univ ($5,566, 410), and Morgan State Univ ($3,262, 410), ending with Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College ($0.0, 200).

20 out of the other 328 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for research spending per student, e.g., Ashford Univ.

1. Spending on research and public services is from the Finance Data File 2009 (Revised March 2012) as reported by the National Center for Education Statistics (http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds).
   
2. College SAT data 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). Note that only about 41% of all colleges in this dataset reported at least one numeric SAT score.
   

New Mexico State Univ is in Las Cruces, NM, is public, is in the Western Athletic Conference, research intensive, a land-grant institution, more than 50% Black, Hispanic, Asian, American Indian, or Alaska Native, has a nursing major, has had a Final Four men's basketball team, has its top Associates major in business, has its top Doctoral major in education, has its top Masters major in education, has its top major in criminal justice, offers on-campus housing, plays division I/FBS football, requires test scores for undergrad admissions, is on the semester system, and enrolls from 10,000 to 19,999 students.

• PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (275th place)
• Webometrics world ranking (383rd place)
• research spending ($137.5M)
• average full-time teaching salary ($71,335)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($19,068)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($7,827)
• research spending per student ($6,602)
• endowment per full-time student ($6,185)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($6,040)
• average undergrad student loan ($4,723)
• cost of a shared room ($3,946)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (215.7%)
• undergrads who get financial aid (95%)
• undergrads among full-time students (80.9%)
• in-state freshmen (75.3%)
• full-time retention rate (72%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (56.7%)
• minorities (52.6%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (46%)
• Hispanics (45.5%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (40%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (25.9%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (23.9%)
• grad students who are under 25 years old (16.9%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 15.4%)
• foreign students (6.1%)
• Blacks or African Americans (3.1%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (2.7%)
• Asians (1.3%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -13.4%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (430)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (420)
• 25th percentile SAT writing score (420)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (560)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (560)
• 75th percentile SAT writing score (540)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (47)
• average January temperature (43.8 degrees)
• dorm capacity (3,985)
• first-year applicants (5,942)
• foreign students (1,276)
• full-time grad students (1,731)
• full-time undergrads (11,673)
• grad students (3,375)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (1)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (3)
• total 75th percentile SAT score (1,660)
• undergrads (14,276)
• yearly for-credit students (20,822)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (3.83)
• students per faculty member (18)
• annual rainfall (9.7 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.09)
• elevation (1,195 meters)

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