beat Purdue (62nd place), USC (70th place), Emory (80th place), and U of Colorado Boulder (97th place), and others, ending with San Diego State Univ (351st place).

1. The Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2013-2014 is published at http://www.TimesHigherEducation.co.uk.
   
2. Information on majors and programs of study is from the Completions Data File, 2011-12 (Provisional release) as reported by the National Center for Education Statistics (http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds). Top majors are the ones that have the most conferred degrees. If it says "is in" rather than just "is", then various top majors were combined into a new attribute. For example, colleges whose top major is "in engineering" will include a college whose top major is chemical engineering, another whose top major is electrical engineering, and so on.
   

Boston Univ is in Boston, MA, is private and nonprofit, research intensive, a member of the American Association of Universities, accepts the Common Application, has a Phi Beta Kappa chapter, has a culinary program, has a law school, has its top major in business, offers a Doctor of Medicine degree, offers on-campus housing, 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 law, and enrolls 20,000 or more students.

• USNews law school ranking (29th place)
• USNews MBA ranking (40th place)
• Times Higher Education world ranking (50th place)
• Webometrics world ranking (57th place)
• ARWU world ranking (75th place)
• PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (119th place)
• research spending ($180.7M)
• average full-time teaching salary ($108,651)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($42,994)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($42,994)
• endowment per full-time student ($37,402)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($23,670)
• average undergrad student loan ($10,118)
• cost of a shared room ($8,600)
• research spending per student ($4,377)
• full-time retention rate (92%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (60.9%)
• undergrads who get financial aid (60%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (47%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 31.1%)
• minorities (19.8%)
• in-state freshmen (18.3%)
• foreign students (17.3%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (13%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (11.8%)
• Asians (10.1%)
• Hispanics (6.1%)
• Blacks or African Americans (3.4%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.2%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -23.7%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (610)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (570)
• 25th percentile SAT writing score (600)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (700)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (670)
• 75th percentile SAT writing score (680)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (38)
• average January temperature (26.9 degrees)
• dorm capacity (11,376)
• first-year applicants (41,802)
• foreign students (7,136)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (7)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (8)
• total 75th percentile SAT score (2,050)
• yearly for-credit students (41,276)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (1.41)
• students per faculty member (13)
• annual rainfall (49.7 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.11)
• elevation (3 meters)

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