outdid Adams State Univ (2,299 meters), St John's College (2,246 meters), U of Wyoming (2,197 meters), and Southwest Acupuncture College-Santa Fe (2,129 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).
   

Western State Colorado Univ is in Gunnison, CO, is public, is in the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference, degree-granting, has its top Masters major in education, has its top major in business, offers on-campus housing, requires test scores for undergrad admissions, is on the semester system, and enrolls from 1,000 to 4,999 students.

• PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (451st place)
• average full-time teaching salary ($56,396)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($16,318)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($6,449)
• average undergrad student loan ($5,371)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($5,083)
• cost of a shared room ($4,700)
• research spending per student ($11)
• endowment per full-time student ($0)
• research spending ($0.0K)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (153%)
• undergrads among full-time students (91.5%)
• undergrads who get financial aid (90%)
• in-state freshmen (72.6%)
• full-time retention rate (63%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (43%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (39.8%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (32%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (23.1%)
• grad students who are under 25 years old (13.3%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (12.8%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 8.6%)
• minorities (7.4%)
• disabled students (6%)
• Hispanics (5.3%)
• Blacks or African Americans (1.7%)
• foreign students (0.5%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.3%)
• Asians (0.1%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -7.9%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (460)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (460)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (550)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (560)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (3)
• average January temperature (9.1 degrees)
• dorm capacity (1,229)
• first-year applicants (1,499)
• foreign students (15)
• full-time grad students (110)
• full-time undergrads (1,853)
• grad students (195)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• undergrads (2,106)
• yearly for-credit students (2,745)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (1.21)
• students per faculty member (16)
• annual rainfall (10.6 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.02)
• elevation (2,354 meters)

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