beat out by U of Phoenix-Online Campus (9,438) and U of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (8,956).

Incidentally, all 3 enroll 20,000 or more students.

beat USC (7,915), NYU (7,545), Boston Univ (7,136), and Northeastern Univ (7,086), and others, ending with Amridge Univ (0).

7 out of the other 3,121 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for foreign students, e.g., Chamberlain College of Nursing-Georgia.

1. The number of foreign students is from the 12-month Unduplicated Head Count Data File, 2011-12 (Provisional release) as reported by the National Center for Education Statistics (http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds).
   

Purdue is in West Lafayette, IN, is public, is in the Big Ten Conference, research intensive, a land-grant institution, a member of the American Association of Universities, accepts the Common Application, grants medical degrees, has a Phi Beta Kappa chapter, has a nursing major, has had a Final Four men's basketball team, has its top major in business, offers on-campus housing, plays division I/FBS football, requires test scores for undergrad admissions, is on the semester system, its top Masters major is business administration and management, its top Doctoral major is pharmacy, its top Associates major is aeronautics/aviation/aerospace science and technology, and enrolls 20,000 or more students.

• Webometrics world ranking (19th place)
• USNews MBA ranking (44th place)
• ARWU world ranking (57th place)
• Times Higher Education world ranking (62nd place)
• Forbes Best Buy ranking (76th place)
• PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (134th place)
• research spending ($223.1M)
• average full-time teaching salary ($90,071)
• endowment per full-time student ($46,166)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($28,702)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($9,900)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($9,850)
• average undergrad student loan ($6,707)
• research spending per student ($5,039)
• cost of a shared room ($4,704)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (189.9%)
• full-time retention rate (90%)
• undergrads among full-time students (77.4%)
• undergrads who get financial aid (64%)
• in-state freshmen (55.2%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (43.8%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (38%)
• grad students who are under 25 years old (33.3%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 24.6%)
• foreign students (19.6%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (19%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (14.3%)
• minorities (11.7%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (6%)
• Asians (4.8%)
• Blacks or African Americans (3.4%)
• Hispanics (3.2%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.3%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -19.7%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (550)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (510)
• 25th percentile SAT writing score (510)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (680)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (620)
• 75th percentile SAT writing score (620)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (264)
• average January temperature (26.5 degrees)
• dorm capacity (11,779)
• first-year applicants (31,124)
• foreign students (8,658)
• full-time grad students (6,191)
• full-time undergrads (29,360)
• grad students (9,109)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (4)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (2)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (2)
• total 75th percentile SAT score (1,920)
• undergrads (31,284)
• yearly for-credit students (44,267)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (1.03)
• students per faculty member (14)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.25)
• elevation (189 meters)

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