tied with Barclay College (570).

Incidentally, both are religiously affiliated.

beat Bethel College-North Newton (530), Sterling College (490), and Bethany College (470).

31 out of the other 35 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for 75th percentile SAT writing score, e.g., Benedictine 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. College geographic information is from the IPEDS Directory, 2012-13 (Provisional release) by the National Center for Education Statistics (http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds).
   

Newman Univ is in Wichita, KS, is private and nonprofit, is Roman Catholic, 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, its top Masters major is social work, its top Associates major is occupational therapist assistant, and enrolls from 1,000 to 4,999 students.

• average full-time teaching salary ($53,479)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($22,238)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($22,238)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($16,375)
• endowment per full-time student ($8,163)
• average undergrad student loan ($6,052)
• cost of a shared room ($3,200)
• research spending ($0.0K)
• research spending per student ($0.0)
• undergrads who get financial aid (96%)
• in-state freshmen (78.1%)
• full-time retention rate (70%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (61.6%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (56%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (39%)
• minorities (19.6%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (12.9%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 12.1%)
• Hispanics (9.1%)
• Blacks or African Americans (4.6%)
• Asians (4.4%)
• foreign students (2.4%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (1.5%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -10.8%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (450)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (480)
• 25th percentile SAT writing score (410)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (610)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (570)
• 75th percentile SAT writing score (570)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• average January temperature (32.2 degrees)
• dorm capacity (408)
• first-year applicants (2,486)
• foreign students (101)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• total 75th percentile SAT score (1,750)
• yearly for-credit students (4,165)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (0.9)
• students per faculty member (14)
• annual rainfall (32.6 inches)
• elevation (396 meters)

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