UChicago is first with $142,582.

Incidentally, both have a law school.

outdid Northwestern ($124,709), Thomas M. Cooley Law School ($122,610), Washington Univ in St Louis ($119,472), and Michigan State College of Law ($117,485), and others, ending with Ohio Mid-Western College ($4,546).

40 out of the other 517 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for average full-time teaching salary, e.g., U of Minnesota-Rochester.

1. Teaching salaries for men and women are from the Salary Outlays for Full-time Instructional Staff by Contract Length, Gender, and Academic Rank: 2011-12 (Final/revised release) 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.
   

The John Marshall Law School is in Chicago, IL, is private and nonprofit, grants doctorates, has a law school, is on the semester system, its top Masters major is legal professions and studies, other, its top Doctoral major is law, and enrolls from 1,000 to 4,999 students.

• average full-time teaching salary ($137,011)
• endowment per full-time student ($2,763)
• research spending ($0.0K)
• research spending per student ($0.0)
• minorities (21.9%)
• Blacks or African Americans (8.3%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 6.7%)
• Hispanics (6.6%)
• Asians (6.1%)
• foreign students (3.5%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.9%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -6.3%)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• average January temperature (26.0 degrees)
• foreign students (63)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• yearly for-credit students (1,804)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (0.4)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.23)
• elevation (181 meters)

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