nearest others are Southern Methodist Univ, U of Iowa, Marquette, and U of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

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.
   

U of Denver is in Denver, CO, is private and nonprofit, research intensive, has a law school, offers on-campus housing, has a Phi Beta Kappa chapter, accepts the Common Application, requires test scores for undergrad admissions, its top major is finance, is on the quarter system, its top Masters major is business/commerce, its top Doctoral major is law, and enrolls from 10,000 to 19,999 students.

• USNews law school ranking (64th place)
• PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (157th place)
• Webometrics world ranking (654th place)
• research spending ($15.2M)
• average full-time teaching salary ($84,532)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($39,177)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($39,177)
• endowment per full-time student ($34,360)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($20,331)
• average undergrad student loan ($8,111)
• cost of a shared room ($6,738)
• research spending per student ($1,098)
• full-time retention rate (86%)
• undergrads who get financial aid (85%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (54.9%)
• undergrads among full-time students (46.3%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (40%)
• in-state freshmen (39.3%)
• grad students who are under 25 years old (24.9%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 18.4%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (15%)
• minorities (14.9%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (10.4%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (9%)
• foreign students (9%)
• Hispanics (7.2%)
• disabled students (4%)
• Blacks or African Americans (3.6%)
• Asians (3.5%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.6%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -15.5%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (560)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (550)
• 25th percentile SAT writing score (530)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (660)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (640)
• 75th percentile SAT writing score (640)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (12)
• dorm capacity (2,250)
• first-year applicants (11,442)
• foreign students (1,252)
• full-time grad students (3,341)
• full-time undergrads (4,965)
• grad students (6,262)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (7)
• total 75th percentile SAT score (1,940)
• undergrads (5,394)
• yearly for-credit students (13,840)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (1.57)
• students per faculty member (11)
• annual rainfall (17.2 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.50)
• elevation (1,628 meters)

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