closest are Columbia (34,810, 7,814), Tulane (30,080, 8,357), Northwestern (30,926, 9,376), and UPenn (31,218, 11,678), ending with Arizona State (29,722, 59,382).

1,119 colleges were ruled out due to 380 missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for first-year applicants alone, 8 for undergrads alone, and 731 for both together.

1. The number of total first-year applicants 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).
   
2. 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).
   

Brown is in Providence, RI, is private and nonprofit, is in the Ivy Group, research intensive, a top-100 happiest school, a member of the American Association of Universities, accepts the Common Application, has a Phi Beta Kappa chapter, offers a Doctor of Medicine degree, offers on-campus housing, requires test scores for undergrad admissions, its top major is economics, is on the semester system, its top Masters major is computer science, its top Doctoral major is medicine, and enrolls from 5,000 to 9,999 students.

• PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (8th place)
• Wall St. Journal feeder school ranking (12th place)
• Times Higher Education world ranking (52nd place)
• ARWU world ranking (67th place)
• Webometrics world ranking (103rd place)
• research spending ($104.0M)
• endowment per full-time student ($300,964)
• average full-time teaching salary ($116,467)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($43,758)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($43,758)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($33,023)
• research spending per student ($11,064)
• cost of a shared room ($6,974)
• average undergrad student loan ($5,901)
• full-time retention rate (97%)
• undergrads among full-time students (72.4%)
• undergrads who get financial aid (61%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (54.6%)
• grad students who are under 25 years old (33.2%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 28.5%)
• minorities (26.2%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (26%)
• foreign students (15.2%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (15%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (12.6%)
• Asians (12.1%)
• Hispanics (8.6%)
• disabled students (7%)
• Blacks or African Americans (5.1%)
• in-state freshmen (2.5%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (1%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.4%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -22.2%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (660)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (660)
• 25th percentile SAT writing score (670)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (770)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (760)
• 75th percentile SAT writing score (780)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (49)
• average January temperature (29.2 degrees)
• dorm capacity (4,773)
• first-year applicants (28,742)
• foreign students (1,430)
• full-time grad students (2,303)
• full-time undergrads (6,117)
• grad students (2,450)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (8)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (51)
• total 75th percentile SAT score (2,310)
• undergrads (6,435)
• yearly for-credit students (9,396)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (3.51)
• students per faculty member (8)
• annual rainfall (47.2 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.18)
• elevation (40 meters)

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