after South Dakota State Univ ($43.1M, 530), closest are U of Texas at El Paso ($42.8M, 490), Morgan State Univ ($29.4M, 480), Florida A&M ($27.0M, 520), and North Carolina A&T State Univ ($22.6M, 480), ending with Paul Quinn College ($0.0K, 385).

20 out of the other 337 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for research spending, e.g., San Diego State Univ-Imperial Valley Campus.

1. 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).
   
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.
   

South Dakota State Univ is in Brookings, SD, is public, is in the Missouri Valley Conference, research intensive, a land-grant institution, has a nursing major, has its top major in nursing, offers on-campus housing, requires test scores for undergrad admissions, is on the semester system, its top Masters major is counseling psychology, its top Doctoral major is pharmacy, its top Associates major is general studies, and enrolls from 10,000 to 19,999 students.

• PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (498th place)
• Webometrics world ranking (1,142nd place)
• research spending ($43.1M)
• average full-time teaching salary ($63,605)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($9,350)
• endowment per full-time student ($7,786)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($7,404)
• average undergrad student loan ($6,797)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($3,788)
• research spending per student ($2,881)
• cost of a shared room ($2,839)
• undergrads who get financial aid (94%)
• undergrads among full-time students (88.4%)
• full-time retention rate (75%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (74%)
• in-state freshmen (58.2%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (50.4%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (32%)
• grad students who are under 25 years old (27.2%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (26.3%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (24.2%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 14.7%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (14%)
• minorities (5.7%)
• foreign students (3.7%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (1.7%)
• Hispanics (1.5%)
• Blacks or African Americans (1.4%)
• Asians (1.1%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -12.8%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (450)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (430)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (580)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (530)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (26)
• average January temperature (12.9 degrees)
• dorm capacity (3,995)
• first-year applicants (4,725)
• foreign students (561)
• full-time grad students (453)
• full-time undergrads (8,562)
• grad students (1,465)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (1)
• undergrads (11,118)
• yearly for-credit students (14,966)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (1.56)
• students per faculty member (17)
• annual rainfall (24.3 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.03)
• elevation (497 meters)

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