beat Johns Hopkins ($1.072B), Stanford ($848.1M), Duke ($758.6M), and U of Wisconsin-Madison ($738.7M), and others, ending with Polytechnic U of Puerto Rico-Orlando ($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).
   

MIT is in Cambridge, MA, is private and nonprofit, is in the New England Football Conference, research intensive, a top-100 happiest school, a member of the American Association of Universities, offers on-campus housing, has a Phi Beta Kappa chapter, requires test scores for undergrad admissions, its top major is computer science, is on a four-one-four calendar, its top Masters major is business/commerce, its top Doctoral major is electrical and electronics engineering, and enrolls from 10,000 to 19,999 students.

• Webometrics world ranking (2nd place)
• ARWU world ranking (4th place)
• USNews MBA ranking (4th place)
• Times Higher Education world ranking (5th place)
• Wall St. Journal feeder school ranking (8th place)
• PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (11th place)
• research spending ($1.128B)
• endowment per full-time student ($943,093)
• average full-time teaching salary ($135,018)
• research spending per student ($98,072)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($42,050)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($42,050)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($34,641)
• cost of a shared room ($7,554)
• average undergrad student loan ($7,216)
• full-time retention rate (98%)
• undergrads who get financial aid (85%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (46.3%)
• undergrads among full-time students (40.2%)
• grad students who are under 25 years old (32.1%)
• minorities (29%)
• foreign students (26.8%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (20%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 18.7%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (17%)
• Asians (16.4%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (11.3%)
• Hispanics (8.4%)
• in-state freshmen (7.6%)
• Blacks or African Americans (3.8%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (0.8%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.4%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -15.7%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (740)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (670)
• 25th percentile SAT writing score (680)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (800)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (770)
• 75th percentile SAT writing score (780)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• average January temperature (26.9 degrees)
• dorm capacity (5,940)
• first-year applicants (18,109)
• foreign students (3,084)
• full-time grad students (6,537)
• full-time undergrads (4,480)
• grad students (6,686)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (114)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (41)
• total 75th percentile SAT score (2,350)
• undergrads (4,503)
• yearly for-credit students (11,501)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (1.48)
• students per faculty member (8)
• annual rainfall (49.7 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.11)
• elevation (2 meters)

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