closest are Florida State Univ (77th place, $2,195), Arizona State (39th place, $2,212), U of Oklahoma (142nd place, $2,522), and U of Oregon (78th place, $2,952), ending with UC San Francisco (9th place, $207,660).

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. The Webometrics world ranking of universities refers to the first 2014 version from Webometrics.info.
   

George Mason Univ is in Fairfax, VA, is public, research intensive, has a law school, has a nursing major, has had a Final Four men's basketball team, has its top Masters major in education, offers on-campus housing, requires test scores for undergrad admissions, its top major is psychology, is on the semester system, its top Doctoral major is law, and enrolls 20,000 or more students.

• USNews law school ranking (41st place)
• Forbes Best Buy ranking (81st place)
• PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (139th place)
• Webometrics world ranking (146th place)
• ARWU world ranking (151st place)
• Times Higher Education world ranking (351st place)
• research spending ($57.8M)
• average full-time teaching salary ($93,292)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($27,764)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($9,620)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($7,485)
• average undergrad student loan ($6,828)
• cost of a shared room ($5,510)
• endowment per full-time student ($1,933)
• research spending per student ($1,172)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (188.6%)
• full-time retention rate (86%)
• in-state freshmen (76.8%)
• undergrads who get financial aid (70%)
• undergrads among full-time students (62.7%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (52%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (51.9%)
• minorities (30.6%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 30%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (28%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (23%)
• grad students who are under 25 years old (19.2%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (15.6%)
• Asians (12.7%)
• Hispanics (9%)
• Blacks or African Americans (8.4%)
• foreign students (4.2%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.5%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -23.1%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (530)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (520)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (630)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (620)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• average January temperature (32.6 degrees)
• dorm capacity (6,238)
• first-year applicants (17,621)
• foreign students (2,094)
• full-time grad students (4,032)
• full-time undergrads (16,265)
• grad students (12,308)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (1)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• undergrads (20,653)
• yearly for-credit students (49,345)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (0.7)
• students per faculty member (16)
• annual rainfall (44.4 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.13)
• elevation (123 meters)

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