nearest others are Independence Univ, Oregon Health & Science Univ, U of St Francis, and Ohio Univ.

1. Information on majors and programs of study is from the Completions Data File, 2011-12 (Provisional release) as reported by the National Center for Education Statistics (http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds). Top majors are the ones that have the most conferred degrees. If it says "is in" rather than just "is", then various top majors were combined into a new attribute. For example, colleges whose top major is "in engineering" will include a college whose top major is chemical engineering, another whose top major is electrical engineering, and so on.
   
2. Distance calculations between two colleges use a mathematical formula for the distance on a sphere between two points.
   

Loma Linda Univ is in Loma Linda, CA, is private and nonprofit, is Seventh Day Adventists, grants doctorates, has a nursing major, has an emergency medical technology program, has its top Associates major in nursing, has its top major in nursing, offers a Doctor of Medicine degree, offers on-campus housing, is on the quarter system, its top Masters major is health/health care administration/management, its top Doctoral major is medicine, and enrolls from 1,000 to 4,999 students.

• PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (400th place)
• research spending ($41.7M)
• endowment per full-time student ($122,142)
• average full-time teaching salary ($72,859)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($30,408)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($30,408)
• research spending per student ($7,736)
• cost of a shared room ($3,520)
• minorities (46.8%)
• Asians (23.4%)
• Hispanics (16.3%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 10.5%)
• foreign students (9.1%)
• Blacks or African Americans (6.9%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.2%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -9.5%)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• average January temperature (53.7 degrees)
• dorm capacity (510)
• foreign students (489)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• yearly for-credit students (5,392)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (5.63)
• students per faculty member (3)
• annual rainfall (13.3 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.05)
• elevation (350 meters)

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