after Avila Univ (430, $57,261), closest are College of the Ozarks (440, $59,371), Principia College (440, $60,073), Harding Univ (440, $61,750), and Southeast Missouri State Univ (445, $58,769), ending with Washington Univ in St Louis (720, $119,472).

51 out of the other 98 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for 25th percentile SAT math score, e.g., National American Univ-Zona Rosa.

1. Teaching salaries for men and women are from the Salary Outlays for Full-time Instructional Staff by Contract Length, Gender, and Academic Rank: 2011-12 (Final/revised release) by the National Center for Education Statistics (http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds).
   
2. College SAT data is from the Institutional Characteristics Data File 2012-2013 (Provisional Release) as reported by the National Center for Education Statistics (http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds). Note that only about 41% of all colleges in this dataset reported at least one numeric SAT score.
   
3. Distance calculations between two colleges use a mathematical formula for the distance on a sphere between two points.
   

Avila Univ is in Kansas City, MO, is private and nonprofit, is in the Heart of America Athletic Conference, is Roman Catholic, degree-granting, has a nursing major, has its top major in nursing, 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.

• PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (849th place)
• average full-time teaching salary ($57,261)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($23,950)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($23,950)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($15,276)
• average undergrad student loan ($6,564)
• endowment per full-time student ($5,125)
• cost of a shared room ($3,300)
• research spending ($0.0K)
• research spending per student ($0.0)
• undergrads who get financial aid (99%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (78%)
• in-state freshmen (72.4%)
• undergrads among full-time students (69.4%)
• full-time retention rate (66%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (54.3%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (43%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (31.1%)
• minorities (26%)
• Blacks or African Americans (18.4%)
• grad students who are under 25 years old (15.6%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (14.6%)
• foreign students (9.4%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 8.9%)
• Hispanics (5.4%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (1.1%)
• Asians (1.1%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -8.2%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (430)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (420)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (600)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (590)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• average January temperature (30.1 degrees)
• dorm capacity (390)
• first-year applicants (1,475)
• foreign students (220)
• full-time grad students (425)
• full-time undergrads (1,093)
• grad students (583)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• undergrads (1,325)
• yearly for-credit students (2,345)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (4.12)
• students per faculty member (15)
• annual rainfall (40.0 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.01)
• elevation (279 meters)

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