outdid U of New England, Plymouth State Univ, Salem State Univ, and Dartmouth, and 273 others, ending with Hawaii Pacific Univ.

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).
   
2. The college's size is from the IPEDS Directory, 2012-13 (Provisional release) by the National Center for Education Statistics (http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds).
   

U of Southern Maine is in Portland, ME, is public, accepts the Common Application, grants doctorates, has a law school, has a nursing major, has its top Associates major in business, has its top Masters major in education, has its top major in nursing, offers on-campus housing, requires test scores for undergrad admissions, is on the semester system, its top Doctoral major is law, and enrolls from 5,000 to 9,999 students.

• PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (782nd place)
• research spending ($16.4M)
• average full-time teaching salary ($76,255)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($21,280)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($8,920)
• average undergrad student loan ($7,468)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($5,266)
• cost of a shared room ($4,450)
• endowment per full-time student ($4,220)
• research spending per student ($1,362)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (138.6%)
• undergrads who get financial aid (88%)
• in-state freshmen (84.5%)
• undergrads among full-time students (78.9%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (74%)
• full-time retention rate (64%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (54.2%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (43%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (32.1%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 19.1%)
• grad students who are under 25 years old (13.3%)
• minorities (5.6%)
• disabled students (5%)
• Blacks or African Americans (1.7%)
• Hispanics (1.4%)
• Asians (1.4%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (1.1%)
• foreign students (0.6%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (-9.3%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -16%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (440)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (440)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (560)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (570)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• average January temperature (22.3 degrees)
• dorm capacity (1,543)
• first-year applicants (4,109)
• foreign students (76)
• full-time grad students (826)
• full-time undergrads (4,551)
• grad students (1,975)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• undergrads (7,407)
• yearly for-credit students (12,050)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (0.3)
• students per faculty member (15)
• annual rainfall (47.2 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.10)
• elevation (18 meters)

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