outdone by Judson Univ (0.00) and Resurrection Univ (0.00).

tied with VanderCook College of Music (0.01) and Concordia Univ-Chicago (0.01).

Incidentally, all 5 are private and nonprofit.

outdid Purdue Univ-Calumet Campus (0.02), Aurora Univ (0.02), North Central College (0.03), and Lewis Univ (0.04), and others, ending with Rosalind Franklin U of Medicine and Science (5.42).

57 out of the other 90 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for diversity and inclusion ratio, e.g., U of St Francis.

1. To measure how prominent are diversity and inclusion on a college's website, we divided the number of hits on a search query for those two words by the number of hits on a search for the query excellence OR achievement, both queries using the Google API. If the latter query does not report at least 100 hits, then the value entered is N/A. The data were collected in February 2014.
   
2. Distance calculations between two colleges use a mathematical formula for the distance on a sphere between two points.
   

Elmhurst College is in Elmhurst, IL, is private and nonprofit, is in the College Conference of Illinois and Wisc, is of the United Church of Christ, degree-granting, has a nursing major, offers on-campus housing, requires test scores for undergrad admissions, its top major is psychology, is on a four-one-four calendar, its top Masters major is business administration and management, and enrolls from 1,000 to 4,999 students.

• PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (617th place)
• research spending ($100K)
• average full-time teaching salary ($67,949)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($31,650)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($31,650)
• endowment per full-time student ($24,012)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($19,974)
• average undergrad student loan ($6,922)
• cost of a shared room ($5,360)
• research spending per student ($17)
• undergrads among full-time students (92.5%)
• in-state freshmen (85.4%)
• undergrads who get financial aid (78%)
• full-time retention rate (78%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (55%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (53%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (22%)
• grad students who are under 25 years old (19.1%)
• minorities (18.5%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (15.8%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (11.2%)
• Hispanics (9%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 8.6%)
• Asians (4.6%)
• Blacks or African Americans (4.4%)
• foreign students (0.8%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.5%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -7.9%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (515)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (480)
• 25th percentile SAT writing score (475)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (610)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (590)
• 75th percentile SAT writing score (595)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (2)
• dorm capacity (1,133)
• first-year applicants (3,043)
• foreign students (30)
• full-time grad students (18)
• full-time undergrads (2,864)
• grad students (246)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• total 75th percentile SAT score (1,795)
• undergrads (3,052)
• yearly for-credit students (3,791)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (1.41)
• students per faculty member (13)
• annual rainfall (38.8 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.01)
• elevation (208 meters)

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