outdid U of Redlands (1.12), U of San Diego (0.74), Loyola Marymount (0.36), and UCSD (0.32), and others, ending with Soka U of America (0.00).

150 out of the other 214 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for diversity and inclusion ratio, e.g., American Jewish Univ.

1. To measure how prominent are diversity and inclusion on a college's website, we divided the number of hits on a search query for those two words by the number of hits on a search for the query excellence OR achievement, both queries using the Google API. If the latter query does not report at least 100 hits, then the value entered is N/A. The data were collected in February 2014.
   
2. Distance calculations between two colleges use a mathematical formula for the distance on a sphere between two points.
   

Alliant International Univ is in San Diego, CA, is private and nonprofit, research intensive, has a law school, offers on-campus housing, its top major is psychology, is on the semester system, its top Masters major is business administration and management, its top Doctoral major is clinical psychology, and enrolls from 1,000 to 4,999 students.

• research spending ($700K)
• average full-time teaching salary ($73,168)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($15,190)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($15,190)
• cost of typical room and board ($10,110)
• endowment per full-time student ($354)
• research spending per student ($160)
• in-state freshmen (80%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (66.7%)
• minorities (22.3%)
• Hispanics (13.3%)
• Blacks or African Americans (5.8%)
• disabled students (5%)
• foreign students (4.7%)
• Asians (2.7%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 2.3%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.5%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -2.2%)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (8)
• average January temperature (55.8 degrees)
• dorm capacity (416)
• first-year applicants (9)
• foreign students (215)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• yearly for-credit students (4,588)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (1.45)
• students per faculty member (10)
• annual rainfall (11.2 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (1.38)
• elevation (196 meters)

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