trailed Central State Univ (340), Lincoln College (350), Kentucky State Univ (350), and U of Arkansas at Pine Bluff (355), and others, ending with Washington Univ in St Louis (720).

614 out of the other 1,006 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for 25th percentile SAT math score, e.g., Mount Mary College.

1. College SAT data is from the Institutional Characteristics Data File 2012-2013 (Provisional Release) as reported by the National Center for Education Statistics (http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds). Note that only about 41% of all colleges in this dataset reported at least one numeric SAT score.
   
2. Distance calculations between two colleges use a mathematical formula for the distance on a sphere between two points.
   

MacMurray College is in Jacksonville, IL, is private and nonprofit, is in the Upper Midwest Athletic Conference, is United Methodist, degree-granting, has a nursing major, has its top major in nursing, offers on-campus housing, requires test scores for undergrad admissions, is on the semester system, and enrolls fewer than 1,000 students.

• average full-time teaching salary ($48,665)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($20,900)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($20,900)
• endowment per full-time student ($14,448)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($13,504)
• average undergrad student loan ($8,455)
• cost of typical room and board ($7,650)
• research spending ($0.0K)
• research spending per student ($0.0)
• undergrads who get financial aid (99%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (92%)
• in-state freshmen (78.8%)
• full-time retention rate (68%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (67%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (50.7%)
• minorities (20.5%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (19.5%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (16.4%)
• Blacks or African Americans (15.7%)
• disabled students (6%)
• Hispanics (4%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.5%)
• Asians (0.3%)
• foreign students (0.2%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 0.1%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -0.1%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (330)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (390)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (540)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (500)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (1)
• average January temperature (26.9 degrees)
• dorm capacity (378)
• first-year applicants (878)
• foreign students (1)
• full-time undergrads (565)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• undergrads (625)
• yearly for-credit students (598)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (23.41)
• students per faculty member (12)
• annual rainfall (40.4 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.00)
• elevation (178 meters)

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