Husson Univ is first.

outdid Plymouth State Univ, Southern New Hampshire Univ, Dartmouth, and Saint Michael's College, and 527 others, ending with U of Phoenix-Hawaii Campus.

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. Information on majors and programs of study is from the Completions Data File, 2011-12 (Provisional release) as reported by the National Center for Education Statistics (http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds). Top majors are the ones that have the most conferred degrees. If it says "is in" rather than just "is", then various top majors were combined into a new attribute. For example, colleges whose top major is "in engineering" will include a college whose top major is chemical engineering, another whose top major is electrical engineering, and so on.
   

Thomas College is in Waterville, ME, is private and nonprofit, degree-granting, accepts the Common Application, has its top Associates major in business, has its top major in business, offers on-campus housing, requires test scores for undergrad admissions, is on the semester system, its top Masters major is business administration and management, and enrolls from 1,000 to 4,999 students.

• average full-time teaching salary ($51,973)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($22,770)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($22,770)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($14,526)
• endowment per full-time student ($8,584)
• average undergrad student loan ($7,417)
• cost of a shared room ($4,830)
• research spending ($0.0K)
• research spending per student ($0.0)
• undergrads who get financial aid (100%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (92%)
• in-state freshmen (74.6%)
• full-time retention rate (66%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (61%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (48.9%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (11.4%)
• minorities (4.5%)
• Blacks or African Americans (3%)
• foreign students (1.7%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 1.6%)
• Asians (0.7%)
• Hispanics (0.5%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.3%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -1.6%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (400)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (390)
• 25th percentile SAT writing score (380)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (510)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (510)
• 75th percentile SAT writing score (480)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• average January temperature (17.6 degrees)
• dorm capacity (494)
• first-year applicants (1,130)
• foreign students (22)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• total 75th percentile SAT score (1,500)
• yearly for-credit students (1,318)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (7.33)
• students per faculty member (21)
• annual rainfall (42.8 inches)
• elevation (8 meters)

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