closest are SUNY College at Oneonta (12,040, 2.3%), Ithaca College (13,813, 2.4%), CUNY John Jay College of Criminal Justice (13,858, 2.6%), and CUNY Lehman College (15,348, 3.9%), ending with Columbia (34,810, 24.8%).

31 otherwise matching colleges were ruled out due to 30 missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for first-year applicants alone and 1 for both it and foreign students 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. 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).
   
3. College geographic information is from the IPEDS Directory, 2012-13 (Provisional release) by the National Center for Education Statistics (http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds).
   

Buffalo State SUNY is in Buffalo, NY, is public, is in the New Jersey Athletic Conference, degree-granting, offers on-campus housing, accepts the Common Application, has its top major in business, requires test scores for undergrad admissions, is on the semester system, its top Masters major is multi-/interdisciplinary studies, other, and enrolls from 10,000 to 19,999 students.

• PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (926th place)
• Webometrics world ranking (1,208th place)
• research spending ($2.5M)
• average full-time teaching salary ($76,003)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($15,944)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($6,694)
• cost of a shared room ($6,592)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($6,548)
• average undergrad student loan ($6,139)
• endowment per full-time student ($2,269)
• research spending per student ($162)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (138.2%)
• in-state freshmen (96.9%)
• undergrads who get financial aid (89%)
• undergrads among full-time students (82.7%)
• full-time retention rate (75%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (73%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (56.4%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (52%)
• grad students who are under 25 years old (22.5%)
• minorities (21.6%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (18.2%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (14.6%)
• Blacks or African Americans (13.3%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 11.1%)
• Hispanics (6.2%)
• Asians (1.6%)
• foreign students (1.1%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.5%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -10%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (440)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (440)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (540)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (530)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• average January temperature (24.5 degrees)
• dorm capacity (2,700)
• first-year applicants (11,846)
• foreign students (172)
• full-time grad students (516)
• full-time undergrads (8,606)
• grad students (2,034)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• undergrads (9,747)
• yearly for-credit students (15,348)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (2.22)
• students per faculty member (16)
• annual rainfall (39.6 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.09)
• elevation (184 meters)

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