closest are CUNY City College (20,903, 474), Texas Christian (19,335, 521), CUNY Brooklyn College (19,152, 528), and Cal Poly-Pomona (23,946, 592), ending with USC (46,104, 17,205).

1,082 colleges were ruled out due to 270 missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for first-year applicants alone, 11 for full-time grad students alone, and 801 for both together.

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. Information on numbers and ages of the undergrad and graduate student body is from the file enrollment by age, gender, attendance status, and level of student: Fall 2012 (Provisional release) as reported by the National Center for Education Statistics (http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds).
   

CUNY Queens College is in Flushing, NY, is public, degree-granting, offers on-campus housing, has a Phi Beta Kappa chapter, requires test scores for undergrad admissions, its top major is psychology, is on the semester system, its top Masters major is library and information science, and enrolls 20,000 or more students.

• Forbes Best Buy ranking (27th place)
• PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (400th place)
• Webometrics world ranking (966th place)
• research spending ($17.8M)
• average full-time teaching salary ($89,625)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($12,117)
• cost of a shared room ($9,950)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($7,566)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($5,907)
• average undergrad student loan ($4,857)
• endowment per full-time student ($2,379)
• research spending per student ($700)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (105.1%)
• in-state freshmen (91.9%)
• full-time retention rate (87%)
• undergrads among full-time students (80.5%)
• undergrads who get financial aid (65%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (56.5%)
• minorities (47.5%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (47%)
• grad students who are under 25 years old (32.3%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (25.1%)
• Asians (20.7%)
• Hispanics (18.6%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (16.4%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 12.9%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (9%)
• Blacks or African Americans (8.1%)
• foreign students (4.5%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.1%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -11.4%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (530)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (490)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (620)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (580)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• average January temperature (32.9 degrees)
• dorm capacity (506)
• first-year applicants (18,722)
• foreign students (1,150)
• full-time grad students (415)
• full-time undergrads (11,300)
• grad students (3,913)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (1)
• undergrads (16,187)
• yearly for-credit students (25,507)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (0.6)
• students per faculty member (15)
• annual rainfall (44.7 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.07)
• elevation (12 meters)

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