outdid Life Chiropractic College West (21%), Cogswell College (27.3%), Palo Alto Univ (28.9%), and Stanford (29.4%), and 13 others, ending with U of East-West Medicine (80.1%).

1. The percentage of minorities (American Indians or Alaska Natives, Asians or Pacific Islanders, Blacks or African Americans, and Hispanics) among full-time students is calculated from the 12-month Unduplicated Head Count Data File, 2011-12 (Provisional release) as reported by the National Center for Education Statistics (http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds).
   
2. Distance calculations between two colleges use a mathematical formula for the distance on a sphere between two points.
   

Sofia Univ is in Palo Alto, CA, is private and nonprofit, grants doctorates, is on the quarter system, its top Masters major is psychology, other, its top Doctoral major is psychology, other, and enrolls fewer than 1,000 students.

• research spending ($100K)
• average full-time teaching salary ($67,510)
• endowment per full-time student ($3,453)
• research spending per student ($100)
• minorities (14.5%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 13.6%)
• foreign students (8.7%)
• Hispanics (5%)
• Blacks or African Americans (4.7%)
• Asians (3.7%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (1.1%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -12%)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• average January temperature (48.5 degrees)
• foreign students (56)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• yearly for-credit students (642)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (0.5)
• annual rainfall (16.2 inches)
• elevation (2 meters)

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