What's exceptional about Southern Methodist Univ (smu) ?
high MBA rank; fewer dorms
closest are UChicago (6th place, 2,991), Rice (30th place, 3,282), Wake Forest (47th place, 3,380), and Case Western Reserve Univ (52nd place, 3,700), ending with U of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (47th place, 16,018).
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Information on dorm capacity and on-campus housing 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).
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The 2014 US News MBA ranking is at http://grad-schools.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-business-schools.
Southern Methodist Univ is in Dallas, TX, is private and nonprofit, is in the Conference USA, is United Methodist, research intensive, a top-100 party school, accepts the Common Application, has a Phi Beta Kappa chapter, has a law school, has had a Final Four men's basketball team, offers on-campus housing, plays division I/FBS football, requires test scores for undergrad admissions, its top major is finance, is on the semester system, its top Masters major is finance, its top Doctoral major is law, and enrolls from 10,000 to 19,999 students.
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- USNews law school ranking (48th place)
- USNews MBA ranking (52nd place)
- PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (147th place)
- ARWU world ranking (401st place)
- Webometrics world ranking (582nd place)
- research spending ($16.6M)
- endowment per full-time student ($108,192)
- average full-time teaching salary ($94,612)
- in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($41,750)
- out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($41,750)
- average grant aid to undergrads ($24,947)
- cost of a shared room ($8,629)
- average undergrad student loan ($7,747)
- research spending per student ($1,327)
- full-time retention rate (90%)
- undergrads who get financial aid (78%)
- undergrads among full-time students (57.4%)
- ratio of female full-time freshmen (49%)
- in-state freshmen (41.2%)
- undergrads who receive student loans (32%)
- average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 31.6%)
- grad students who are under 25 years old (26.1%)
- minorities (22.6%)
- tuition & fees increase over three years (18.7%)
- undergrads who get Pell grants (15%)
- foreign students (10.7%)
- Hispanics (9.2%)
- Blacks or African Americans (6.7%)
- Asians (6.2%)
- disabled students (6%)
- undergrads who are 25 years or older (4%)
- American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.5%)
- non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
- average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -24%)
- 25th percentile SAT math score (600)
- 25th percentile SAT reading score (590)
- 25th percentile SAT writing score (570)
- 75th percentile SAT math score (690)
- 75th percentile SAT reading score (680)
- 75th percentile SAT writing score (680)
- alumni who played in the National Football League (145)
- average January temperature (47.0 degrees)
- dorm capacity (2,000)
- first-year applicants (11,217)
- foreign students (1,342)
- full-time grad students (2,458)
- full-time undergrads (5,999)
- grad students (4,644)
- members of the National Academy of Sciences (2)
- men's basketball Final Four appearances (1)
- Rhodes Scholar alumni (5)
- total 75th percentile SAT score (2,050)
- undergrads (6,249)
- yearly for-credit students (12,519)
- on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (1.65)
- students per faculty member (11)
- annual rainfall (37.6 inches)
- diversity and inclusion ratio (0.06)
- elevation (186 meters)
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