with U of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Carleton College, Argosy Univ-Twin Cities, and Hamline Univ.

Incidentally, none of the 5 has their top Doctoral major in education.

1. 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.
   
2. Distance calculations between two colleges use a mathematical formula for the distance on a sphere between two points.
   

Northwestern College is in Saint Paul, MN, is private and nonprofit, is in the Upper Midwest Athletic Conference, degree-granting, religiously affiliated, 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 organizational behavior studies and theology/theological studies, 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 (905th place)
• average full-time teaching salary ($56,374)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($26,960)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($26,960)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($14,047)
• average undergrad student loan ($7,158)
• endowment per full-time student ($5,410)
• cost of a shared room ($4,820)
• research spending ($0.0K)
• research spending per student ($0.0)
• undergrads who get financial aid (100%)
• undergrads among full-time students (94.5%)
• full-time retention rate (80%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (73%)
• in-state freshmen (69.4%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (56.5%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (38%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (16.3%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (11.2%)
• grad students who are under 25 years old (10.5%)
• minorities (10.4%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 4.8%)
• Blacks or African Americans (4.5%)
• Asians (4.1%)
• Hispanics (1.3%)
• foreign students (0.5%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.5%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -4.6%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (490)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (505)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (610)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (663)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• average January temperature (16.3 degrees)
• dorm capacity (1,078)
• first-year applicants (2,392)
• foreign students (19)
• full-time grad students (27)
• full-time undergrads (2,012)
• grad students (181)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• undergrads (3,086)
• yearly for-credit students (3,664)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (3.55)
• students per faculty member (17)
• annual rainfall (32.2 inches)
• elevation (277 meters)

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