outdone by U of Maine and U of New Hampshire.

Incidentally, all 3 are in New England.

outdid Fitchburg State Univ, U of Connecticut, UMass Amherst, and Trinity College, and 93 others, ending with Humboldt State Univ.

1. College geographic information is from the IPEDS Directory, 2012-13 (Provisional release) by the National Center for Education Statistics (http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds).
   
2. The top 100 party schools in 2013-2014 are as reported by http://FiestaFrog.com.
   

U of Rhode Island is in Kingston, RI, is public, is in the Colonial Athletic Association, research intensive, a top-100 party school, a land-grant institution, accepts the Common Application, has a Phi Beta Kappa chapter, has a nursing major, offers on-campus housing, 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 pharmacy, and enrolls from 10,000 to 19,999 students.

• ARWU world ranking (301st place)
• PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (399th place)
• Webometrics world ranking (437th place)
• research spending ($65.0M)
• average full-time teaching salary ($84,103)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($28,016)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($12,450)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($9,631)
• endowment per full-time student ($7,485)
• cost of a shared room ($7,314)
• average undergrad student loan ($5,472)
• research spending per student ($3,376)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (125%)
• undergrads who get financial aid (91%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (82%)
• undergrads among full-time students (81.3%)
• full-time retention rate (81%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (55.2%)
• in-state freshmen (48.1%)
• grad students who are under 25 years old (41.4%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (26%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 24.4%)
• minorities (14.4%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (9%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (7.6%)
• disabled students (7%)
• Hispanics (6.5%)
• Blacks or African Americans (4.6%)
• Asians (3%)
• foreign students (1.6%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.3%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -19.6%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (480)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (470)
• 25th percentile SAT writing score (470)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (590)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (570)
• 75th percentile SAT writing score (570)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (19)
• average January temperature (27.7 degrees)
• dorm capacity (6,119)
• first-year applicants (20,218)
• foreign students (316)
• full-time grad students (1,856)
• full-time undergrads (11,923)
• grad students (3,075)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (1)
• total 75th percentile SAT score (1,730)
• undergrads (13,376)
• yearly for-credit students (19,257)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (2.67)
• students per faculty member (17)
• annual rainfall (51.3 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.25)
• elevation (53 meters)

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