closest are U of North Texas (13.5%, 164th place), U of Houston (12%, 195th place), Florida International Univ (13.3%, 227th place), and Wayne State Univ (23.2%, 293rd place), ending with U of Louisiana at Lafayette (20.1%, 1,377th place).

1. The percentage of ethnic groups or other types of students among all full-time students is calculated from the 12-month Unduplicated Head Count Data File, 2011-12 (Provisional release) as reported by the National Center for Education Statistics (http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds).
   
2. The Webometrics world ranking of universities refers to the first 2014 version from Webometrics.info.
   

U of South Carolina-Columbia is in Columbia, SC, is public, is in the Southeastern Conference, research intensive, a top-100 party school, has a Phi Beta Kappa chapter, has a law 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 marketing/marketing management, is on the semester system, its top Masters major is social work, 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 (73rd place)
• USNews law school ranking (98th place)
• Webometrics world ranking (144th place)
• Times Higher Education world ranking (251st place)
• ARWU world ranking (301st place)
• PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (459th place)
• research spending ($105.9M)
• average full-time teaching salary ($84,725)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($27,644)
• endowment per full-time student ($13,684)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($10,488)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($7,220)
• average undergrad student loan ($6,698)
• cost of a shared room ($4,900)
• research spending per student ($3,059)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (163.6%)
• undergrads who get financial aid (92%)
• full-time retention rate (87%)
• undergrads among full-time students (74.7%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (55.6%)
• in-state freshmen (53.8%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (47%)
• grad students who are under 25 years old (30.8%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 28.7%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (20%)
• minorities (17.9%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (16.5%)
• Blacks or African Americans (11.9%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (7.3%)
• foreign students (4.4%)
• Hispanics (3.2%)
• Asians (2.5%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.3%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -22.3%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (560)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (540)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (650)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (640)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (150)
• average January temperature (47.8 degrees)
• dorm capacity (6,594)
• first-year applicants (21,311)
• foreign students (1,513)
• full-time grad students (5,072)
• full-time undergrads (21,646)
• grad students (7,925)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (1)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (8)
• undergrads (23,363)
• yearly for-credit students (34,602)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (3.09)
• students per faculty member (17)
• annual rainfall (46.3 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.20)
• elevation (97 meters)

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