beat out by UCLA (17th place), USC (18th place), and Pepperdine (61st place).

tied with Loyola Marymount (68th place).

Incidentally, all 5 are a top-Green college.

beat Chapman Univ (126th place).

1. The 2014 US News Law School ranking is at http://grad-schools.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-law-schools.
   
2. Distance calculations between two colleges use a mathematical formula for the distance on a sphere between two points.
   

U of San Diego is in San Diego, CA, is private and nonprofit, is in the Pioneer Football League, is Roman Catholic, research intensive, accepts the Common Application, has a Phi Beta Kappa chapter, has a law school, has a nursing major, has its top major in business, offers on-campus housing, requires test scores for undergrad admissions, is on a four-one-four calendar, its top Masters major is business administration, management and operations, other, its top Doctoral major is law, and enrolls from 5,000 to 9,999 students.

• USNews law school ranking (68th place)
• USNews MBA ranking (99th place)
• PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (213th place)
• Webometrics world ranking (1,003rd place)
• research spending ($1.9M)
• average full-time teaching salary ($99,660)
• endowment per full-time student ($42,063)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($39,970)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($39,970)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($21,237)
• cost of typical room and board ($11,910)
• average undergrad student loan ($6,826)
• research spending per student ($201)
• full-time retention rate (90%)
• undergrads who get financial aid (79%)
• undergrads among full-time students (67.3%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (60%)
• in-state freshmen (55.9%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (46%)
• grad students who are under 25 years old (28.8%)
• minorities (25.6%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 21.3%)
• Hispanics (15.2%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (15%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (10.1%)
• Asians (7.3%)
• disabled students (6%)
• foreign students (5.7%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (4.6%)
• Blacks or African Americans (2.7%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.4%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -17.6%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (570)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (550)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (670)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (650)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (8)
• average January temperature (55.0 degrees)
• dorm capacity (2,651)
• first-year applicants (16,578)
• foreign students (528)
• full-time grad students (1,585)
• full-time undergrads (5,269)
• grad students (2,648)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• undergrads (5,457)
• yearly for-credit students (9,341)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (2.82)
• students per faculty member (15)
• annual rainfall (12.3 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.74)
• elevation (56 meters)

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