after Marquette (22,900, 100%), closest are Campbell Univ (12,445, 100%), Xavier Univ (11,232, 100%), Saint Xavier Univ (10,247, 100%), and Arcadia Univ (9,044, 100%), ending with Denver School of Nursing (0, 100%).

170 out of the other 570 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for first-year applicants, e.g., Lindsey Wilson College.

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. The data on undergrad loans, financial aid, and Pell grants are from the Student Financial Aid Data File, 2011-12 (Provisional release) as reported by the National Center for Education Statistics (http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds).
   

Marquette is in Milwaukee, WI, is private and nonprofit, is Roman Catholic, research intensive, accepts the Common Application, grants medical degrees, has a Phi Beta Kappa chapter, has a law school, has a nursing major, has had a Final Four men's basketball team, offers on-campus housing, requires test scores for undergrad admissions, its top major is finance, 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 (94th place)
• PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (202nd place)
• Webometrics world ranking (996th place)
• research spending ($19.4M)
• average full-time teaching salary ($86,173)
• endowment per full-time student ($36,473)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($33,244)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($33,244)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($14,604)
• average undergrad student loan ($8,146)
• cost of a shared room ($6,700)
• research spending per student ($1,527)
• undergrads who get financial aid (100%)
• full-time retention rate (88%)
• undergrads among full-time students (70.6%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (53%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (52.8%)
• grad students who are under 25 years old (37.4%)
• in-state freshmen (29.1%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 26.3%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (18%)
• minorities (15.3%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (14.3%)
• Hispanics (6.5%)
• disabled students (5%)
• foreign students (4.9%)
• Blacks or African Americans (4.6%)
• Asians (3.9%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (2.9%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.3%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -20.8%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (550)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (520)
• 25th percentile SAT writing score (530)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (650)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (630)
• 75th percentile SAT writing score (630)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (70)
• average January temperature (22.0 degrees)
• dorm capacity (4,800)
• first-year applicants (22,900)
• foreign students (626)
• full-time grad students (2,102)
• full-time undergrads (7,969)
• grad students (3,456)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (3)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• total 75th percentile SAT score (1,910)
• undergrads (8,293)
• yearly for-credit students (12,723)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (1.73)
• students per faculty member (14)
• annual rainfall (36.8 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.18)
• elevation (199 meters)

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