outdone by U of Maine at Fort Kent, U of Maine at Presque Isle, and U of Maine at Machias.

Incidentally, all 4 are in Maine.

outdid College of the Atlantic, Husson Univ, New England School of Communications, and Bangor Theological Seminary, and 3,114 others, ending with U of Guam.

1. Northeastern-ness is calculated as the sum of latitude and longitude, both from the IPEDS Directory, 2012-13 (Provisional release) by the National Center for Education Statistics (http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds).
   

U of Maine is in Orono, ME, is public, research intensive, a top-100 party school, a land-grant institution, accepts the Common Application, has a Phi Beta Kappa chapter, has a nursing major, offers on-campus housing, requires test scores for undergrad admissions, its top major is psychology, is on the semester system, its top Masters major is social work, its top Doctoral major is multi-/interdisciplinary studies, other, and enrolls from 10,000 to 19,999 students.

• PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (446th place)
• Webometrics world ranking (739th place)
• research spending ($55.4M)
• average full-time teaching salary ($76,349)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($27,454)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($10,594)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($8,709)
• average undergrad student loan ($7,670)
• endowment per full-time student ($7,012)
• cost of a shared room ($4,624)
• research spending per student ($4,293)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (159.1%)
• undergrads who get financial aid (94%)
• undergrads among full-time students (80.5%)
• full-time retention rate (76%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (74%)
• in-state freshmen (72.6%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (48.5%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (36%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 22.6%)
• grad students who are under 25 years old (18.4%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (11.3%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (10.8%)
• minorities (5.1%)
• foreign students (3.6%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (1.4%)
• Hispanics (1.3%)
• Blacks or African Americans (1.3%)
• Asians (1.1%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -18.5%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (470)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (470)
• 25th percentile SAT writing score (460)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (600)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (590)
• 75th percentile SAT writing score (580)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (20)
• average January temperature (19.9 degrees)
• dorm capacity (3,465)
• first-year applicants (8,093)
• foreign students (468)
• full-time grad students (1,121)
• full-time undergrads (7,520)
• grad students (2,123)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (1)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (3)
• total 75th percentile SAT score (1,770)
• undergrads (8,778)
• yearly for-credit students (12,910)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (0.6)
• students per faculty member (12)
• annual rainfall (40.4 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.32)
• elevation (35 meters)

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