after Tulane (630, 16.3%), closest are U of Texas at Dallas (560, 26.5%), New Mexico Inst. of Mining and Technology (550, 17.8%), Rollins College (550, 18.4%), and Drexel (540, 18.7%), ending with Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College (200, 17.8%).

757 out of the other 1,115 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for 25th percentile SAT reading score, e.g., Mount Mary College.

1. Information on numbers and ages of the undergrad and graduate student body is from the file enrollment by age, gender, attendance status, and level of student: Fall 2012 (Provisional release) as reported by the National Center for Education Statistics (http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds).
   
2. College SAT data 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). Note that only about 41% of all colleges in this dataset reported at least one numeric SAT score.
   

Tulane is in New Orleans, LA, is private and nonprofit, is in the Conference USA, research intensive, a top-100 party school, a member of the American Association of Universities, has a Phi Beta Kappa chapter, has a hospital, has a law school, 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 finance, is on the semester system, its top Masters major is finance, its top Doctoral major is law, its top Associates major is legal assistant/paralegal, and enrolls from 10,000 to 19,999 students.

• USNews law school ranking (48th place)
• USNews MBA ranking (67th place)
• PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (125th place)
• Times Higher Education world ranking (226th place)
• ARWU world ranking (301st place)
• Webometrics world ranking (365th place)
• research spending ($151.2M)
• average full-time teaching salary ($96,100)
• endowment per full-time student ($75,303)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($45,240)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($45,240)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($25,601)
• research spending per student ($10,298)
• average undergrad student loan ($7,551)
• cost of a shared room ($6,600)
• full-time retention rate (89%)
• undergrads who get financial aid (80%)
• undergrads among full-time students (64.5%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (58.1%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (41%)
• grad students who are under 25 years old (33.5%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 25.9%)
• minorities (18.8%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (16.3%)
• in-state freshmen (12.6%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (11.5%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (11%)
• foreign students (9.7%)
• Blacks or African Americans (8.7%)
• disabled students (6%)
• Hispanics (5.1%)
• Asians (4.5%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.5%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -20.6%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (620)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (630)
• 25th percentile SAT writing score (640)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (710)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (720)
• 75th percentile SAT writing score (720)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (103)
• average January temperature (54.3 degrees)
• dorm capacity (3,800)
• first-year applicants (30,080)
• foreign students (1,427)
• full-time grad students (3,930)
• full-time undergrads (6,443)
• grad students (4,601)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (1)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (18)
• total 75th percentile SAT score (2,150)
• undergrads (8,357)
• yearly for-credit students (14,681)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (1.52)
• students per faculty member (9)
• annual rainfall (62.3 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.07)
• elevation (0 meters)

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