Plymouth State Univ is first.

outdid UMass-Boston, Lesley Univ, Cambridge College, and Johnson & Wales Univ-Providence, and 123 others, ending with Fielding Graduate 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. 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.
   

Rivier Univ is in Nashua, NH, is private and nonprofit, is Roman Catholic, grants doctorates, has a nursing major, has its top Associates major in nursing, has its top Doctoral 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 Masters major is business administration and management, and enrolls from 1,000 to 4,999 students.

• PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (635th place)
• average full-time teaching salary ($58,770)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($26,905)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($26,905)
• endowment per full-time student ($16,561)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($12,652)
• average undergrad student loan ($9,329)
• cost of a shared room ($5,500)
• research spending ($0.0K)
• research spending per student ($0.0)
• undergrads who get financial aid (100%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (90%)
• full-time retention rate (78%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (73.4%)
• in-state freshmen (39.6%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (35%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (12.3%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 12%)
• minorities (8.6%)
• disabled students (8%)
• Hispanics (3.5%)
• Asians (3.1%)
• Blacks or African Americans (1.5%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.5%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• foreign students (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -10.7%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (400)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (420)
• 25th percentile SAT writing score (420)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (520)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (500)
• 75th percentile SAT writing score (510)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• average January temperature (23.6 degrees)
• dorm capacity (423)
• first-year applicants (791)
• foreign students (1)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• total 75th percentile SAT score (1,530)
• yearly for-credit students (2,836)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (0.8)
• students per faculty member (17)
• annual rainfall (46.3 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.01)
• elevation (56 meters)

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