beat Medical U of South Carolina ($51,709), Duke ($44,305), Vanderbilt ($29,466), and U of Arkansas for Medical Sciences ($29,096), and others, ending with Polytechnic U of Puerto Rico-Orlando ($0.0).

224 out of the other 802 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for research spending per student, e.g., West Virginia Univ Inst. of Technology.

1. Spending on research and public services is from the Finance Data File 2009 (Revised March 2012) as reported by the National Center for Education Statistics (http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds).
   
2. Distance calculations between two colleges use a mathematical formula for the distance on a sphere between two points.
   

Morehouse School of Medicine is in Atlanta, GA, is private and nonprofit, historically black, grants doctorates, offers a Doctor of Medicine degree, is on the semester system, its top Masters major is public health, its top Doctoral major is medicine, and enrolls fewer than 1,000 students.

• research spending ($20.3M)
• endowment per full-time student ($195,424)
• research spending per student ($59,028)
• minorities (93.6%)
• Blacks or African Americans (87.5%)
• grad students who are under 25 years old (34.7%)
• Asians (5.8%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.3%)
• foreign students (0%)
• Hispanics (0%)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• average January temperature (43.3 degrees)
• foreign students (0)
• full-time grad students (349)
• grad students (360)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• yearly for-credit students (344)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (11.63)
• annual rainfall (49.7 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.02)
• elevation (313 meters)

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