after Univ at Buffalo (74th place, $18,609), closest are U of North Texas (164th place, $16,781), U of South Florida (176th place, $16,257), Brigham Young-Provo (181st place, $4,710), and U of Houston (195th place, $16,518), ending with U of Louisiana at Lafayette (1,377th place, $14,344).

1. Tuition and fees are 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. The Webometrics world ranking of universities refers to the first 2014 version from Webometrics.info.
   

Univ at Buffalo is in Buffalo, NY, is public, is in the Mid-American Conference, research intensive, a top-100 party school, a member of the American Association of Universities, accepts the Common Application, has a Phi Beta Kappa chapter, has a hospital, has a law school, has a nursing major, has its top major in business, offers a Doctor of Medicine degree, offers on-campus housing, plays division I/FBS football, requires test scores for undergrad admissions, is on the semester system, its top Masters major is social work, its top Doctoral major is law, and enrolls 20,000 or more students.

• Forbes Best Buy ranking (51st place)
• Webometrics world ranking (74th place)
• USNews MBA ranking (75th place)
• USNews law school ranking (86th place)
• Times Higher Education world ranking (176th place)
• ARWU world ranking (201st place)
• PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (247th place)
• research spending ($103.8M)
• average full-time teaching salary ($104,553)
• endowment per full-time student ($18,648)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($18,609)
• average undergrad student loan ($8,046)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($7,989)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($7,215)
• cost of a shared room ($6,540)
• research spending per student ($3,233)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (132.9%)
• full-time retention rate (87%)
• in-state freshmen (82.1%)
• undergrads who get financial aid (77%)
• undergrads among full-time students (67.4%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (54%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (45.4%)
• grad students who are under 25 years old (40.4%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (33%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 26%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (24.8%)
• minorities (20.8%)
• foreign students (19.7%)
• Asians (9.1%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (8.3%)
• Blacks or African Americans (5.9%)
• Hispanics (5.2%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.6%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -20.6%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (550)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (500)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (660)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (600)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (16)
• average January temperature (24.5 degrees)
• dorm capacity (7,570)
• first-year applicants (21,905)
• foreign students (6,325)
• full-time grad students (6,270)
• full-time undergrads (17,763)
• grad students (9,438)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (1)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• undergrads (19,514)
• yearly for-credit students (32,091)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (2.56)
• students per faculty member (14)
• annual rainfall (39.6 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.09)
• elevation (180 meters)

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