after Western Carolina Univ (13,993, 530), closest are U of West Florida (13,623, 530), Indiana U of Pennsylvania (12,735, 520), Bloomsburg U of Pennsylvania (11,423, 530), and Stephen F Austin State Univ (11,402, 500), ending with Piedmont International Univ (97, 510).

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. 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.
   

Western Carolina Univ is in Cullowhee, NC, is public, is in the Southern Conference, grants doctorates, has a nursing major, has an emergency medical technology program, has its top Doctoral major in education, has its top Masters major in education, has its top major in criminal justice, offers on-campus housing, requires test scores for undergrad admissions, is on the semester system, and enrolls from 5,000 to 9,999 students.

• PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (827th place)
• Webometrics world ranking (1,036th place)
• research spending ($1.9M)
• average full-time teaching salary ($68,712)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($15,522)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($5,925)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($5,848)
• endowment per full-time student ($5,773)
• average undergrad student loan ($5,512)
• cost of a shared room ($3,494)
• research spending per student ($170)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (162%)
• in-state freshmen (89.9%)
• undergrads who get financial aid (84%)
• undergrads among full-time students (83%)
• full-time retention rate (74%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (66%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (56%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (39%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (18.8%)
• grad students who are under 25 years old (17.7%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 17%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (11.5%)
• minorities (11.5%)
• Blacks or African Americans (6.2%)
• foreign students (4.1%)
• Hispanics (3%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (1.2%)
• Asians (1.1%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -14.6%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (485)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (460)
• 25th percentile SAT writing score (440)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (570)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (560)
• 75th percentile SAT writing score (530)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (13)
• average January temperature (36.2 degrees)
• dorm capacity (4,054)
• first-year applicants (13,993)
• foreign students (462)
• full-time grad students (627)
• full-time undergrads (6,794)
• grad students (1,629)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• total 75th percentile SAT score (1,660)
• undergrads (7,979)
• yearly for-credit students (11,213)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (2.11)
• students per faculty member (15)
• annual rainfall (51.3 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.09)
• elevation (678 meters)

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