closest are Babson (56th place, 5,512), U of Tulsa (93rd place, 6,984), Bentley Univ (84th place, 7,040), and U of Texas at Dallas (37th place, 7,080), ending with UCLA (14th place, 61,556).

2 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for first-year applicants.

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. The 2014 US News MBA ranking is at http://grad-schools.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-business-schools.
   

Clarkson Univ is in Potsdam, NY, is private and nonprofit, research intensive, offers on-campus housing, accepts the Common Application, has its top major in engineering, 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 physical therapy/therapist, and enrolls from 1,000 to 4,999 students.

• PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (44th place)
• USNews MBA ranking (101st place)
• Webometrics world ranking (833rd place)
• research spending ($11.4M)
• average full-time teaching salary ($89,197)
• endowment per full-time student ($46,462)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($38,610)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($38,610)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($26,459)
• average undergrad student loan ($7,838)
• cost of a shared room ($6,640)
• research spending per student ($3,114)
• undergrads who get financial aid (100%)
• undergrads among full-time students (85.2%)
• full-time retention rate (85%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (82%)
• in-state freshmen (69.4%)
• grad students who are under 25 years old (46.2%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (31%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (28%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 26.5%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (17.3%)
• foreign students (10.3%)
• minorities (9.1%)
• disabled students (6%)
• Hispanics (3.5%)
• Asians (2.9%)
• Blacks or African Americans (2.4%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (1.7%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.3%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -20.9%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (560)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (500)
• 25th percentile SAT writing score (480)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (660)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (610)
• 75th percentile SAT writing score (590)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (1)
• dorm capacity (2,459)
• first-year applicants (4,199)
• foreign students (375)
• full-time grad students (501)
• full-time undergrads (3,050)
• grad students (532)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• total 75th percentile SAT score (1,860)
• undergrads (3,072)
• yearly for-credit students (3,653)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (1.55)
• students per faculty member (15)
• annual rainfall (42.4 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.02)
• elevation (139 meters)

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