after Syracuse ($39,004, 16), closest are U of Virginia ($38,228, 16), U of California-Davis ($36,755, 17), UC Santa Barbara ($36,549, 17), and UC Santa Cruz ($36,294, 18), ending with Haskell Indian Nations Univ ($182, 17).

14 out of the other 1,123 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees, e.g., High Point Univ.

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 student-faculty ratios are from the file total entering class, retention rates, and student-to-faculty ratio: Fall 2012 (Provisional release) as reported by the National Center for Education Statistics (http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds).
   

Syracuse is in Syracuse, NY, is private and nonprofit, is in the Big East Conference, research intensive, a top-100 party school, accepts the Common Application, has a Phi Beta Kappa chapter, has a law school, has had a Final Four men's basketball team, offers on-campus housing, plays division I/FBS football, requires test scores for undergrad admissions, its top major is psychology, is on the semester system, its top Masters major is public administration, its top Doctoral major is law, its top Associates major is liberal arts and sciences/liberal studies, and enrolls 20,000 or more students.

• USNews MBA ranking (79th place)
• USNews law school ranking (96th place)
• PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (181st place)
• Webometrics world ranking (224th place)
• ARWU world ranking (301st place)
• research spending ($83.7M)
• average full-time teaching salary ($91,759)
• endowment per full-time student ($45,074)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($39,004)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($39,004)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($25,371)
• average undergrad student loan ($8,583)
• cost of a shared room ($7,212)
• research spending per student ($2,563)
• full-time retention rate (92%)
• undergrads who get financial aid (74%)
• undergrads among full-time students (70.4%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (60%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (56%)
• grad students who are under 25 years old (40.9%)
• in-state freshmen (35.4%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (25%)
• minorities (22%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 15.8%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (11.7%)
• foreign students (9.5%)
• Hispanics (9.4%)
• Asians (6.4%)
• disabled students (6%)
• Blacks or African Americans (5.7%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (3.6%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.5%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -13.6%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (540)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (510)
• 25th percentile SAT writing score (520)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (650)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (620)
• 75th percentile SAT writing score (630)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (235)
• average January temperature (24.3 degrees)
• dorm capacity (8,273)
• first-year applicants (25,790)
• foreign students (3,120)
• full-time grad students (4,634)
• full-time undergrads (14,169)
• grad students (6,231)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (1)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (5)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (2)
• total 75th percentile SAT score (1,900)
• undergrads (14,798)
• yearly for-credit students (32,675)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (1.15)
• students per faculty member (16)
• annual rainfall (41.5 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.19)
• elevation (139 meters)

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