outdid U of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center (40.4%), U of Alabama in Huntsville (39.4%), Texas A&M-Galveston (38.4%), and Georgia Health Sciences Univ (38.2%), and others, ending with U of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (-23.6%).

20 out of the other 702 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for average teaching salary differential (men vs. women), e.g., Maine Maritime Academy.

1. Teaching salaries for men and women are from the Salary Outlays for Full-time Instructional Staff by Contract Length, Gender, and Academic Rank: 2011-12 (Final/revised release) by the National Center for Education Statistics (http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds).
   
2. The type of college is from the IPEDS Directory, 2012-13 (Provisional release) by the National Center for Education Statistics and combines public/private, profit/nonprofit, length of degree program, etc (http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds).
   

Texas A&M-College Station is in College Station, TX, is public, is in the Southeastern Conference, research intensive, a land-grant institution, a top-100 happiest school, a member of the American Association of Universities, grants medical degrees, offers on-campus housing, plays division I/FBS football, has a Phi Beta Kappa chapter, requires test scores for undergrad admissions, its top major is multi-/interdisciplinary studies, other, is on the semester system, its top Masters major is business administration and management, its top Doctoral major is veterinary medicine, and enrolls 20,000 or more students.

• Webometrics world ranking (15th place)
• USNews MBA ranking (35th place)
• Forbes Best Buy ranking (48th place)
• PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (85th place)
• ARWU world ranking (101st place)
• Times Higher Education world ranking (159th place)
• research spending ($423.6M)
• endowment per full-time student ($156,490)
• average full-time teaching salary ($97,625)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($25,035)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($8,837)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($8,506)
• cost of typical room and board ($8,400)
• research spending per student ($7,849)
• average undergrad student loan ($5,929)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (194.3%)
• in-state freshmen (96%)
• full-time retention rate (92%)
• undergrads among full-time students (79.2%)
• undergrads who get financial aid (78%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (52.2%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 42.9%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (36%)
• grad students who are under 25 years old (29.9%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (23%)
• minorities (22.8%)
• Hispanics (14.9%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (10.7%)
• foreign students (9.1%)
• Asians (4.5%)
• Blacks or African Americans (3.1%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (2.6%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.3%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -30%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (560)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (520)
• 25th percentile SAT writing score (500)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (670)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (640)
• 75th percentile SAT writing score (610)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (264)
• average January temperature (51.1 degrees)
• dorm capacity (9,505)
• first-year applicants (27,730)
• foreign students (4,909)
• full-time grad students (8,012)
• full-time undergrads (36,219)
• grad students (10,524)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (6)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (5)
• total 75th percentile SAT score (1,920)
• undergrads (40,103)
• yearly for-credit students (53,966)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (0.8)
• students per faculty member (22)
• annual rainfall (40.1 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.22)
• elevation (79 meters)

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