after North Dakota State Univ ($4,818, $4,355), closest are South Dakota School of Mines and Technology ($4,205, $3,871), South Dakota State Univ ($2,881, $3,788), U of North Dakota ($2,813, $3,673), and Northwestern Health Sciences Univ ($2,468, $3,672), ending with New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary ($0.0, $971).

193 out of the other 335 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for research spending per student, e.g., Montana Bible College.

1. The data on undergrad loans, financial aid, and Pell grants are from the Student Financial Aid Data File, 2011-12 (Provisional release) as reported by the National Center for Education Statistics (http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds).
   
2. Spending on research and public services is from the Finance Data File 2009 (Revised March 2012) as reported by the National Center for Education Statistics (http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds).
   

North Dakota State Univ is in Fargo, ND, is public, is in the Missouri Valley Conference, research intensive, a land-grant institution, has a nursing major, offers on-campus housing, requires test scores for undergrad admissions, its top major is human development and family studies, is on the semester system, its top Masters major is architecture, its top Doctoral major is pharmacy, and enrolls from 10,000 to 19,999 students.

• PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (440th place)
• Webometrics world ranking (641st place)
• research spending ($81.6M)
• average full-time teaching salary ($71,596)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($17,479)
• average undergrad student loan ($7,978)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($7,233)
• research spending per student ($4,818)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($4,355)
• cost of a shared room ($3,226)
• endowment per full-time student ($29)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (141.7%)
• undergrads who get financial aid (86%)
• undergrads among full-time students (83%)
• full-time retention rate (80%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (65%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (46.8%)
• in-state freshmen (36%)
• grad students who are under 25 years old (31.4%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 22.9%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (22%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (13.1%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (9.3%)
• foreign students (8.1%)
• minorities (5.4%)
• Blacks or African Americans (2.1%)
• Asians (1.5%)
• Hispanics (1.1%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.7%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -18.6%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (490)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (480)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (620)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (610)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (26)
• average January temperature (9.3 degrees)
• dorm capacity (5,011)
• first-year applicants (5,562)
• foreign students (1,373)
• full-time grad students (1,015)
• full-time undergrads (10,718)
• grad students (2,455)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (4)
• undergrads (11,988)
• yearly for-credit students (16,935)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (0.6)
• students per faculty member (21)
• annual rainfall (22.6 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.10)
• elevation (274 meters)

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