Western State Colorado Univ is first with 2,354 meters.

Incidentally, both are in Colorado.

outdid St John's College (2,246 meters), U of Wyoming (2,197 meters), Southwest Acupuncture College-Santa Fe (2,129 meters), and Navajo Technical College (2,121 meters), and others, ending with Strayer Univ-Louisiana (-2 meters).

8 out of the other 3,121 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for elevation, e.g., Northern Marianas College.

1. Elevations are calculated by http://www.GPSVisualizer.com from the latitude and longitude from the IPEDS Directory, 2012-13 (Provisional release) by the National Center for Education Statistics (http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds).
   

Adams State Univ is in Alamosa, CO, is public, is in the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference, degree-granting, has a nursing major, offers on-campus housing, requires test scores for undergrad admissions, its top major is liberal arts and sciences/liberal studies, is on the semester system, its top Masters major is counseling psychology, its top Associates major is liberal arts and sciences/liberal studies, and enrolls from 1,000 to 4,999 students.

• average full-time teaching salary ($52,278)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($17,416)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($6,448)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($6,171)
• average undergrad student loan ($5,310)
• cost of a shared room ($3,400)
• endowment per full-time student ($160)
• research spending ($0.0K)
• research spending per student ($0.0)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (170.1%)
• undergrads who get financial aid (94%)
• in-state freshmen (76.3%)
• undergrads among full-time students (73.5%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (63%)
• full-time retention rate (59%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (54%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (44.7%)
• minorities (35.1%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (28.1%)
• Hispanics (26.9%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (25%)
• grad students who are under 25 years old (8.3%)
• Blacks or African Americans (5.7%)
• disabled students (5%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 3.3%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (1.3%)
• Asians (1.2%)
• foreign students (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -3.2%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (435)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (410)
• 25th percentile SAT writing score (403)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (550)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (530)
• 75th percentile SAT writing score (500)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (4)
• average January temperature (17.1 degrees)
• dorm capacity (1,200)
• first-year applicants (2,580)
• foreign students (0)
• full-time grad students (286)
• full-time undergrads (1,922)
• grad students (872)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• total 75th percentile SAT score (1,580)
• undergrads (2,418)
• yearly for-credit students (4,210)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (4.43)
• students per faculty member (16)
• annual rainfall (9.0 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.09)
• elevation (2,299 meters)

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