after East Carolina Univ (42nd place, 560), closest are U of North Carolina at Greensboro (43rd place, 560), U of North Carolina at Charlotte (56th place, 560), Old Dominion Univ (86th place, 560), and Texas Woman's Univ (93rd place, 510).

1. The 2012 Forbes Best Buys ranking is archived at http://www.esf.edu/welcome/Forbes_Best_Buys_2012.pdf.
   
2. College SAT data 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). Note that only about 41% of all colleges in this dataset reported at least one numeric SAT score.
   

East Carolina Univ is in Greenville, NC, is public, is in the Conference USA, research intensive, a top-100 party school, has a nursing major, offers a Doctor of Medicine degree, offers on-campus housing, plays division I/FBS football, requires test scores for undergrad admissions, its top major is speech communication and rhetoric, is on the semester system, its top Masters major is business administration and management, its top Doctoral major is medicine, and enrolls 20,000 or more students.

• Forbes Best Buy ranking (42nd place)
• Webometrics world ranking (572nd place)
• PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (730th place)
• research spending ($22.2M)
• average full-time teaching salary ($72,430)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($19,683)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($7,718)
• average undergrad student loan ($6,449)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($5,869)
• endowment per full-time student ($5,113)
• cost of a shared room ($4,650)
• research spending per student ($722)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (235.4%)
• in-state freshmen (83.1%)
• undergrads among full-time students (79%)
• full-time retention rate (78%)
• undergrads who get financial aid (74%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (63%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (56.8%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (33%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (28.6%)
• grad students who are under 25 years old (24.8%)
• minorities (19.9%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (16.2%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 15.5%)
• Blacks or African Americans (14.3%)
• Hispanics (2.6%)
• Asians (2.3%)
• foreign students (1.4%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.7%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -13.4%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (500)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (480)
• 25th percentile SAT writing score (460)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (570)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (560)
• 75th percentile SAT writing score (540)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (68)
• average January temperature (42.1 degrees)
• dorm capacity (5,469)
• first-year applicants (15,299)
• foreign students (446)
• full-time grad students (2,517)
• full-time undergrads (18,317)
• grad students (5,649)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• total 75th percentile SAT score (1,670)
• undergrads (21,298)
• yearly for-credit students (30,775)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (0.5)
• students per faculty member (18)
• annual rainfall (49.6 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.10)
• elevation (13 meters)

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