outdone by SUNY College at Plattsburgh and Clarkson Univ.

Incidentally, all 3 are in a small town.

outdid SUNY College of Technology at Canton, St Lawrence Univ, Paul Smiths College of Arts and Science, and SUNY College at Oswego, and 225 others, ending with Rabbinical College of Long Island.

1. College geographic information is from the IPEDS Directory, 2012-13 (Provisional release) by the National Center for Education Statistics (http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds).
   

SUNY College at Potsdam is in Potsdam, NY, is public, degree-granting, accepts the Common Application, has its top Masters major in education, has its top major in education, offers on-campus housing, is on the semester system, and enrolls from 1,000 to 4,999 students.

• PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (535th place)
• research spending ($300K)
• average full-time teaching salary ($64,009)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($16,092)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($6,842)
• average undergrad student loan ($6,141)
• cost of a shared room ($5,970)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($5,676)
• endowment per full-time student ($4,150)
• research spending per student ($58)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (135.2%)
• in-state freshmen (96.3%)
• undergrads among full-time students (91.6%)
• undergrads who get financial aid (89%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (77%)
• full-time retention rate (75%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (59.2%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (45%)
• grad students who are under 25 years old (44.7%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (14.7%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 11.8%)
• minorities (11.6%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (6.1%)
• Hispanics (5.1%)
• disabled students (5%)
• Blacks or African Americans (4.2%)
• foreign students (3.7%)
• Asians (1.3%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (1%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -10.5%)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• dorm capacity (2,744)
• first-year applicants (5,022)
• foreign students (180)
• full-time grad students (230)
• full-time undergrads (3,762)
• grad students (356)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• undergrads (3,868)
• yearly for-credit students (4,908)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (3.6)
• students per faculty member (14)
• annual rainfall (42.4 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.07)
• elevation (123 meters)

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