beat out by UCLA (61,556), UCSD (53,449), and UC Berkeley (52,982).

Incidentally, all 4 enroll 20,000 or more students.

beat Cal State-Long Beach (49,775), UC Santa Barbara (49,664), UC Irvine (49,283), and U of California-Davis (46,215), and others, ending with Golden Gate Univ-San Francisco (0).

1,160 out of the other 3,121 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for first-year applicants, e.g., Liberty Univ.

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).
   

St. John's Univ-New York is in Queens, NY, is private and nonprofit, is Roman Catholic, research intensive, has a funeral or mortuary program, has a law school, has had a Final Four men's basketball team, has its top Associates major in business, offers on-campus housing, requires test scores for undergrad admissions, its top major is psychology, is on the semester system, its top Masters major is accounting, its top Doctoral major is law, and enrolls 20,000 or more students.

• USNews law school ranking (98th place)
• PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (137th place)
• research spending ($9.2M)
• average full-time teaching salary ($108,750)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($35,765)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($35,765)
• endowment per full-time student ($20,667)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($20,574)
• cost of a shared room ($9,550)
• average undergrad student loan ($7,177)
• research spending per student ($396)
• undergrads who get financial aid (98%)
• full-time retention rate (76%)
• undergrads among full-time students (75.1%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (75%)
• in-state freshmen (60.5%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (50.3%)
• grad students who are under 25 years old (46.4%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (46%)
• minorities (42%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (18.2%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 14.8%)
• Hispanics (14.3%)
• Asians (14.2%)
• Blacks or African Americans (13.4%)
• foreign students (6%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (3.8%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.1%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -12.9%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (490)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (480)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (610)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (580)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (8)
• average January temperature (32.7 degrees)
• dorm capacity (3,947)
• first-year applicants (52,972)
• foreign students (1,400)
• full-time grad students (2,967)
• full-time undergrads (10,956)
• grad students (5,247)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (2)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• undergrads (15,840)
• yearly for-credit students (23,363)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (0.7)
• students per faculty member (18)
• annual rainfall (42.8 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.41)
• elevation (26 meters)

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