nearest others are Manchester Univ, Bethany Theological Seminary, Bridgewater College, and Elizabethtown College School of Continuing and Professional Studies.

1. The college's religious affiliation (if any) 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).
   
2. Distance calculations between two colleges use a mathematical formula for the distance on a sphere between two points.
   

McPherson College is in Mcpherson, KS, is private and nonprofit, is in the Kansas Collegiate Athletic Conf, is of the Church of Brethren, degree-granting, offers on-campus housing, has its top major in business, requires test scores for undergrad admissions, is on a four-one-four calendar, and enrolls fewer than 1,000 students.

• endowment per full-time student ($51,798)
• average full-time teaching salary ($45,497)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($21,801)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($21,801)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($12,647)
• average undergrad student loan ($6,811)
• cost of a shared room ($3,206)
• research spending ($0.0K)
• research spending per student ($0.0)
• undergrads among full-time students (98.1%)
• undergrads who get financial aid (98%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (84%)
• in-state freshmen (59.9%)
• full-time retention rate (56%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (49%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (46.3%)
• minorities (21.6%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (18.5%)
• Blacks or African Americans (13.1%)
• Hispanics (7.4%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (7.3%)
• foreign students (1.5%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 0.9%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.7%)
• Asians (0.4%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -0.9%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (445)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (440)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (560)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (555)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (1)
• average January temperature (29.9 degrees)
• dorm capacity (502)
• first-year applicants (815)
• foreign students (10)
• full-time grad students (0)
• full-time undergrads (599)
• grad students (12)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• undergrads (632)
• yearly for-credit students (677)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (3.94)
• students per faculty member (13)
• annual rainfall (32.8 inches)
• elevation (455 meters)

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