outdone by Northern Arizona Univ (2,102 meters), Colorado Technical Univ-Online (1,881 meters), and U of Colorado Boulder (1,667 meters).

Incidentally, none of the 4 grants medical degrees.

outdid U of Colorado Denver (1,583 meters), U of New Mexico (1,574 meters), Colorado State Univ-Fort Collins (1,524 meters), and Brigham Young-Idaho (1,499 meters), and 161 others, ending with Stony Brook Univ (0 meters).

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).
   
2. The college's size is from the IPEDS Directory, 2012-13 (Provisional release) by the National Center for Education Statistics (http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds).
   

Metropolitan State U of Denver is in Denver, CO, is public, degree-granting, has a nursing major, has its top major in business, requires test scores for undergrad admissions, is on the semester system, its top Masters major is social work, and enrolls 20,000 or more students.

• PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (556th place)
• average full-time teaching salary ($61,911)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($17,022)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($5,341)
• average undergrad student loan ($5,241)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($4,556)
• endowment per full-time student ($262)
• research spending ($0.0K)
• research spending per student ($0.0)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (218.7%)
• in-state freshmen (98.8%)
• undergrads among full-time students (98.5%)
• undergrads who get financial aid (70%)
• full-time retention rate (65%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (50.1%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (47%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (45.5%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (44%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (29.6%)
• minorities (28.5%)
• Hispanics (17.8%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 15.3%)
• grad students who are under 25 years old (12.7%)
• Blacks or African Americans (6.5%)
• Asians (3.4%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.8%)
• foreign students (0.5%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -13.2%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (440)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (450)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (540)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (560)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• average January temperature (34.2 degrees)
• first-year applicants (5,942)
• foreign students (137)
• full-time grad students (258)
• full-time undergrads (13,335)
• grad students (362)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• undergrads (23,019)
• yearly for-credit students (29,674)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (1.57)
• students per faculty member (20)
• annual rainfall (17.1 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.08)
• elevation (1,589 meters)

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