after Boston College (31st place, 0.5), closest are Brigham Young-Provo (44th place, 0.3), Georgia State Univ (54th place, 0.3), U of Nebraska-Lincoln (61st place, 0.4), and U of Missouri-Columbia (76th place, 0.3), ending with South Texas College of Law (144th place, 0).

1. The 2014 US News Law School ranking is at http://grad-schools.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-law-schools.
   
2. Property crimes refer to annual burglary, robbery, and motor vehicle theft and are averaged over the period 2010-2012 as reported by the Office of Postsecondary Education at the Department of Education (http://www.ope.ed.gov/security). Colleges with less than 100 for-credit students are disregarded.
   

Boston College is in Chestnut Hill, MA, is private and nonprofit, is in the Atlantic Coast Conference, is Roman Catholic, research intensive, a top-100 happiest school, accepts the Common Application, has a Phi Beta Kappa chapter, has a law school, has a nursing major, offers on-campus housing, plays division I/FBS football, requires test scores for undergrad admissions, its top major is economics and speech communication and rhetoric, is on the semester system, its top Masters major is business administration and management, its top Doctoral major is law, and enrolls from 10,000 to 19,999 students.

• USNews law school ranking (31st place)
• USNews MBA ranking (40th place)
• PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (80th place)
• Times Higher Education world ranking (135th place)
• Webometrics world ranking (292nd place)
• ARWU world ranking (401st place)
• research spending ($34.0M)
• endowment per full-time student ($117,557)
• average full-time teaching salary ($114,688)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($43,878)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($43,878)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($31,755)
• cost of a shared room ($7,790)
• average undergrad student loan ($4,608)
• research spending per student ($2,062)
• full-time retention rate (95%)
• undergrads who get financial aid (58%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (53.5%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (43%)
• in-state freshmen (23%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 21.8%)
• minorities (19.5%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (12.1%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (12%)
• foreign students (8.4%)
• Hispanics (7.6%)
• Asians (7.5%)
• Blacks or African Americans (4.3%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.1%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -17.9%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (640)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (620)
• 25th percentile SAT writing score (640)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (740)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (710)
• 75th percentile SAT writing score (730)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (197)
• average January temperature (26.9 degrees)
• dorm capacity (7,470)
• first-year applicants (34,061)
• foreign students (1,384)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (2)
• total 75th percentile SAT score (2,180)
• yearly for-credit students (16,483)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (0.5)
• students per faculty member (15)
• annual rainfall (49.7 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.34)
• elevation (63 meters)

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