beat out by Harvard (1st place), MIT (2nd place), and Stanford (3rd place).

Incidentally, all 4 are a member of the American Association of Universities.

beat Columbia (5th place), UC Berkeley (6th place), UPenn (7th place), and UCLA (8th place), and others, ending with U of Louisiana at Lafayette (1,377th place).

1. The Webometrics world ranking of universities refers to the first 2014 version from Webometrics.info.
   

Cornell is in Ithaca, NY, is private and nonprofit, is in the Ivy Group, research intensive, a top-100 party school, a land-grant institution, a top-100 happiest school, a member of the American Association of Universities, accepts the Common Application, grants medical degrees, has a Phi Beta Kappa chapter, has a culinary program, has a law school, offers on-campus housing, requires test scores for undergrad admissions, its top major is biology/biological sciences, 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.

• Webometrics world ranking (4th place)
• ARWU world ranking (13th place)
• USNews law school ranking (13th place)
• USNews MBA ranking (16th place)
• Times Higher Education world ranking (19th place)
• Wall St. Journal feeder school ranking (25th place)
• PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (33rd place)
• research spending ($366.3M)
• endowment per full-time student ($180,466)
• average full-time teaching salary ($123,479)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($43,413)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($43,413)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($33,434)
• research spending per student ($16,938)
• cost of a shared room ($8,112)
• average undergrad student loan ($6,315)
• full-time retention rate (96%)
• undergrads among full-time students (66.6%)
• undergrads who get financial aid (66%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (52.6%)
• grad students who are under 25 years old (34.4%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (30%)
• in-state freshmen (29.3%)
• minorities (26.7%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 20.8%)
• foreign students (18.6%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (17%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (14.4%)
• Asians (13.6%)
• Hispanics (8.1%)
• Blacks or African Americans (4.7%)
• disabled students (4%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (1.1%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.3%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -17.2%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (670)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (640)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (780)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (740)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (39)
• average January temperature (23.3 degrees)
• dorm capacity (7,000)
• first-year applicants (37,808)
• foreign students (4,025)
• full-time grad students (7,101)
• full-time undergrads (14,245)
• grad students (7,163)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (36)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (29)
• undergrads (14,261)
• yearly for-credit students (21,626)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (0.7)
• students per faculty member (12)
• annual rainfall (37.3 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.30)
• elevation (268 meters)

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