Saint Joseph's College of Maine is first.

outdid Saint Michael's College, Cambridge College, Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts, and College of Our Lady of the Elms, and 97 others, ending with U of Hawaii at Hilo.

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.
   

Merrimack College is in North Andover, MA, is private and nonprofit, is in the Northeast 10 Conference, is Roman Catholic, degree-granting, accepts the Common Application, has its top Masters major in education, has its top major in business, offers on-campus housing, is on the semester system, its top Associates major is liberal arts and sciences/liberal studies, and enrolls from 1,000 to 4,999 students.

• PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (136th place)
• average full-time teaching salary ($68,128)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($33,920)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($33,920)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($17,070)
• endowment per full-time student ($14,130)
• cost of typical room and board ($11,690)
• average undergrad student loan ($10,332)
• research spending ($0.0K)
• research spending per student ($0.0)
• undergrads who get financial aid (95%)
• undergrads among full-time students (91.1%)
• full-time retention rate (80%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (78%)
• in-state freshmen (62.9%)
• grad students who are under 25 years old (50.6%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (48.4%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (32%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (13.8%)
• minorities (10.6%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 10.5%)
• disabled students (8%)
• Hispanics (6.2%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (5.8%)
• foreign students (3.2%)
• Blacks or African Americans (2.4%)
• Asians (1.9%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.1%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -9.5%)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• average January temperature (25.2 degrees)
• dorm capacity (1,560)
• first-year applicants (5,661)
• foreign students (95)
• full-time grad students (146)
• full-time undergrads (2,309)
• grad students (241)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• undergrads (2,453)
• yearly for-credit students (2,931)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (6.37)
• students per faculty member (12)
• annual rainfall (43.2 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.11)
• elevation (73 meters)

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