beat College of the Ozarks (5th place), Berea College (7th place), Brigham Young-Provo (9th place), and U of Florida (10th place), and others, ending with Virginia Military Inst. (100th place).

1. The 2012 Forbes Best Buys ranking is archived at http://www.esf.edu/welcome/Forbes_Best_Buys_2012.pdf.
   

Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art is in New York, NY, is private and nonprofit, degree-granting, offers on-campus housing, has its top Masters major in engineering, requires test scores for undergrad admissions, its top major is fine/studio arts, is on the semester system, and enrolls fewer than 1,000 students.

• Forbes Best Buy ranking (4th place)
• PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (14th place)
• endowment per full-time student ($636,715)
• research spending ($200K)
• average full-time teaching salary ($97,681)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($40,250)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($40,250)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($39,201)
• cost of a shared room ($9,970)
• average undergrad student loan ($2,945)
• research spending per student ($197)
• undergrads who get financial aid (100%)
• undergrads among full-time students (93.7%)
• full-time retention rate (90%)
• grad students who are under 25 years old (74.6%)
• in-state freshmen (54.1%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (35.9%)
• minorities (31.6%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (23%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (19%)
• Asians (17.3%)
• foreign students (15.3%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (10%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, 8.5%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (8.2%)
• Hispanics (7.6%)
• Blacks or African Americans (5.8%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.9%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, -7.8%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (650)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (610)
• 25th percentile SAT writing score (620)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (780)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (720)
• 75th percentile SAT writing score (730)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• average January temperature (32.6 degrees)
• dorm capacity (178)
• first-year applicants (3,415)
• foreign students (159)
• full-time grad students (41)
• full-time undergrads (862)
• grad students (59)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• total 75th percentile SAT score (2,230)
• undergrads (880)
• yearly for-credit students (1,039)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (0)
• students per faculty member (8)
• annual rainfall (49.9 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.02)
• elevation (12 meters)

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