outdone by St John's College (2,246 meters) and Sierra Nevada College (1,949 meters).

Incidentally, all 3 enroll fewer than 1,000 students.

outdid Colorado College (1,847 meters), Nazarene Bible College (1,825 meters), Montessori Education Center of the Rockies (1,694 meters), and Colorado Christian Univ (1,693 meters), and others, ending with Dillard Univ (-1 meter).

3 out of the other 1,627 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for elevation, e.g., Pacific Islands Univ.

1. Elevations are calculated by http://www.GPSVisualizer.com from the latitude and longitude from the IPEDS Directory, 2012-13 (Provisional release) by the National Center for Education Statistics (http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds).
   
2. The type of college is from the IPEDS Directory, 2012-13 (Provisional release) by the National Center for Education Statistics and combines public/private, profit/nonprofit, length of degree program, etc (http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds).
   

Southwestern College is in Santa Fe, NM, is private and nonprofit, degree-granting, is on the quarter system, its top Masters major is counseling psychology, and enrolls fewer than 1,000 students.

• average full-time teaching salary ($48,290)
• endowment per full-time student ($4,209)
• research spending ($0.0K)
• research spending per student ($0.0)
• minorities (13.8%)
• Hispanics (10.9%)
• Asians (1.7%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.6%)
• Blacks or African Americans (0.6%)
• foreign students (0%)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• average January temperature (31.1 degrees)
• foreign students (0)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• yearly for-credit students (175)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (0)
• annual rainfall (11.4 inches)
• elevation (1,948 meters)

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