beat out by U of Phoenix-Online Campus (47,660) and Walden Univ (41,513).

Incidentally, all 3 enroll 20,000 or more students.

beat USC (21,642), Columbia (18,657), U of Minnesota-Twin Cities (17,384), and U of Florida (17,137), and others, ending with Occidental College (1).

1,906 out of the other 3,121 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for grad students, e.g., Boston Univ.

1. 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).
   

NYU is in New York, NY, is private and nonprofit, research intensive, a top-100 party school, a top-100 happiest school, a member of the American Association of Universities, accepts the Common Application, has a Phi Beta Kappa chapter, has a law school, has a nursing major, has had a Final Four men's basketball team, offers a Doctor of Medicine degree, offers on-campus housing, requires test scores for undergrad admissions, its top major is liberal arts and sciences/liberal studies, is on the semester system, its top Masters major is business administration and management, its top Doctoral major is law, its top Associates major is liberal arts and sciences, general studies and humanities, other, and enrolls 20,000 or more students.

• USNews law school ranking (6th place)
• USNews MBA ranking (10th place)
• ARWU world ranking (27th place)
• Webometrics world ranking (32nd place)
• Times Higher Education world ranking (40th place)
• PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (74th place)
• research spending ($356.8M)
• average full-time teaching salary ($116,711)
• endowment per full-time student ($63,246)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($43,204)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($43,204)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($20,084)
• cost of a shared room ($11,675)
• average undergrad student loan ($8,359)
• research spending per student ($6,844)
• full-time retention rate (92%)
• undergrads who get financial aid (61%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (60%)
• undergrads among full-time students (50.5%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (45%)
• grad students who are under 25 years old (29.8%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 28.7%)
• minorities (25.2%)
• in-state freshmen (23.8%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (23%)
• foreign students (14.5%)
• Asians (14.1%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (11.5%)
• Hispanics (6.5%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (6.4%)
• Blacks or African Americans (4.4%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.2%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -22.3%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (630)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (620)
• 25th percentile SAT writing score (640)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (740)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (710)
• 75th percentile SAT writing score (730)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (29)
• average January temperature (32.6 degrees)
• dorm capacity (12,284)
• first-year applicants (42,807)
• foreign students (7,545)
• full-time grad students (13,717)
• full-time undergrads (21,247)
• grad students (22,018)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (35)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (2)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (5)
• total 75th percentile SAT score (2,180)
• undergrads (22,498)
• yearly for-credit students (52,126)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (0.7)
• students per faculty member (10)
• annual rainfall (49.9 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.12)
• elevation (6 meters)

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