after Rensselaer Polytechnic Inst. ($14,282, 81%), closest are U of Alaska Fairbanks ($8,699, 87.2%), Louisiana State Univ ($8,368, 81.5%), UC Santa Barbara ($6,526, 86.5%), and Oregon State ($6,441, 82.7%), ending with Kent State Univ at Geauga ($0.0, 99.9%).

106 out of the other 621 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for research spending per student, e.g., Embry-Riddle Aeronautical Univ-Prescott.

1. The percentage of ethnic groups or other types of students among all full-time students is calculated from the 12-month Unduplicated Head Count Data File, 2011-12 (Provisional release) as reported by the National Center for Education Statistics (http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds).
   
2. 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).
   

Rensselaer Polytechnic Inst. is in Troy, 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 electrical and electronics engineering, and enrolls from 5,000 to 9,999 students.

• PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (36th place)
• USNews MBA ranking (96th place)
• Times Higher Education world ranking (181st place)
• Webometrics world ranking (188th place)
• ARWU world ranking (201st place)
• research spending ($95.7M)
• average full-time teaching salary ($104,761)
• endowment per full-time student ($85,315)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($44,475)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($44,475)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($21,478)
• research spending per student ($14,282)
• average undergrad student loan ($9,387)
• cost of a shared room ($7,110)
• undergrads who get financial aid (94%)
• full-time retention rate (94%)
• undergrads among full-time students (81%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (63%)
• grad students who are under 25 years old (43.7%)
• in-state freshmen (28.5%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (27.8%)
• minorities (16.6%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (16%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 15.9%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (13.6%)
• foreign students (13.2%)
• Asians (8.9%)
• Hispanics (5.2%)
• disabled students (4%)
• Blacks or African Americans (2.4%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (1.9%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.1%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -13.7%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (660)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (610)
• 25th percentile SAT writing score (590)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (760)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (700)
• 75th percentile SAT writing score (690)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• average January temperature (23.2 degrees)
• dorm capacity (3,400)
• first-year applicants (15,222)
• foreign students (881)
• full-time grad students (1,167)
• full-time undergrads (5,371)
• grad students (1,267)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (1)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (2)
• total 75th percentile SAT score (2,150)
• undergrads (5,391)
• yearly for-credit students (6,698)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (1.39)
• students per faculty member (15)
• annual rainfall (40.8 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.09)
• elevation (68 meters)

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