beat out by MIT ($1.128B), Johns Hopkins ($1.072B), Stanford ($848.1M), and Duke ($758.6M).

Incidentally, all 5 have a Phi Beta Kappa chapter.

beat U of Michigan ($713.2M), Penn State ($693.4M), U of Minnesota-Twin Cities ($672.1M), and UC San Francisco ($662.2M), and others, ending with Amridge Univ ($0.0K).

914 out of the other 3,121 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for research spending, e.g., U of Phoenix-Online 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).
   

U of Wisconsin-Madison is in Madison, WI, is public, is in the Big Ten Conference, research intensive, a top-100 party school, a land-grant institution, a member of the American Association of Universities, has a Phi Beta Kappa chapter, has a law school, has a nursing major, has had a Final Four men's basketball team, 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 economics, is on the semester system, its top Masters major is social work, its top Doctoral major is law, and enrolls 20,000 or more students.

• ARWU world ranking (19th place)
• Times Higher Education world ranking (30th place)
• USNews law school ranking (33rd place)
• USNews MBA ranking (34th place)
• Webometrics world ranking (43rd place)
• Forbes Best Buy ranking (62nd place)
• PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (256th place)
• research spending ($738.7M)
• average full-time teaching salary ($95,322)
• endowment per full-time student ($55,435)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($26,628)
• research spending per student ($16,052)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($10,378)
• average undergrad student loan ($6,843)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($5,446)
• cost of a shared room ($5,172)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (156.6%)
• full-time retention rate (95%)
• undergrads among full-time students (71.7%)
• undergrads who get financial aid (71%)
• in-state freshmen (55.8%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (52.6%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (41%)
• grad students who are under 25 years old (30.3%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 23.3%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (16%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (15.5%)
• minorities (12%)
• foreign students (11.2%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (6%)
• Asians (5.1%)
• Hispanics (4.1%)
• Blacks or African Americans (2.5%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.3%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -18.9%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (620)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (550)
• 25th percentile SAT writing score (590)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (740)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (670)
• 75th percentile SAT writing score (680)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (283)
• average January temperature (18.8 degrees)
• dorm capacity (8,471)
• first-year applicants (21,352)
• foreign students (5,171)
• full-time grad students (9,867)
• full-time undergrads (28,167)
• grad students (11,968)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (39)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (3)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (30)
• total 75th percentile SAT score (2,090)
• undergrads (30,301)
• yearly for-credit students (46,020)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (1.03)
• students per faculty member (18)
• annual rainfall (37.3 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.14)
• elevation (264 meters)

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