outdid Divine Word College (26.6%), Midwestern Univ-Downers Grove (23.8%), Mayo Graduate School (23.7%), and Lawrence Technological Univ (23.2%), and others, ending with ITT Technical Institute-Springfield (0%).

1 out of the other 518 colleges was ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for Asians, i.e., Chamberlain College of Nursing-Indiana.

1. The percentage of ethnic groups or other types of students among all full-time students is calculated from the 12-month Unduplicated Head Count Data File, 2011-12 (Provisional release) 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.
   

Illinois College of Optometry is in Chicago, IL, is private and nonprofit, grants doctorates, offers on-campus housing, is on the quarter system, its top Doctoral major is optometry, and enrolls fewer than 1,000 students.

• research spending ($200K)
• average full-time teaching salary ($94,802)
• cost of typical room and board ($9,273)
• endowment per full-time student ($1,186)
• research spending per student ($354)
• minorities (34.6%)
• Asians (28.3%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 24.6%)
• foreign students (12.4%)
• Blacks or African Americans (3.4%)
• Hispanics (2.9%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -19.8%)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• average January temperature (26.0 degrees)
• dorm capacity (200)
• foreign students (80)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• yearly for-credit students (646)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (1.03)
• elevation (181 meters)

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