outdid Paul Smiths College of Arts and Science, SUNY College at Potsdam, Clarkson Univ, and St Lawrence Univ, and 227 others, ending with Jamestown Business College.

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. 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 Plattsburgh is in Plattsburgh, NY, is public, degree-granting, a top-100 party school, accepts the Common Application, has a nursing major, has its top Masters major in education, has its top major in business, offers on-campus housing, requires test scores for undergrad admissions, is on the semester system, and enrolls from 5,000 to 9,999 students.

• PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (566th place)
• research spending ($800K)
• average full-time teaching salary ($69,756)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($16,058)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($6,808)
• cost of a shared room ($6,284)
• average undergrad student loan ($5,819)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($5,598)
• endowment per full-time student ($2,268)
• research spending per student ($116)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (135.9%)
• undergrads who get financial aid (95%)
• undergrads among full-time students (92.5%)
• in-state freshmen (91.4%)
• full-time retention rate (78%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (74%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (58.1%)
• grad students who are under 25 years old (47.5%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (35%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 21.3%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (14.9%)
• minorities (13.2%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (10.9%)
• Hispanics (6.1%)
• foreign students (5.7%)
• Blacks or African Americans (4.9%)
• disabled students (4%)
• Asians (1.9%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.3%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -17.5%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (470)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (460)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (570)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (550)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• average January temperature (16.9 degrees)
• dorm capacity (2,772)
• first-year applicants (7,939)
• foreign students (413)
• full-time grad students (296)
• full-time undergrads (5,318)
• grad students (461)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• undergrads (5,706)
• yearly for-credit students (7,199)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (1.81)
• students per faculty member (16)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.13)
• elevation (56 meters)

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