outdid Appalachian State Univ (950 meters), Jung Tao School of Classical Chinese Medicine (935 meters), Montreat College (920 meters), and Bluefield State College (907 meters), and 1,129 others, ending with U of Phoenix-Delaware Campus (0 meters).

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. Distance calculations between two colleges use a mathematical formula for the distance on a sphere between two points.
   

Lees-McRae College is in Banner Elk, NC, is private and nonprofit, is of the Presbyterian Church - USA, degree-granting, has a nursing major, has its top major in education, offers on-campus housing, is on the semester system, and enrolls fewer than 1,000 students.

• average full-time teaching salary ($41,174)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($23,950)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($23,950)
• endowment per full-time student ($22,200)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($15,186)
• average undergrad student loan ($9,799)
• cost of typical room and board ($8,500)
• research spending ($0.0K)
• research spending per student ($0.0)
• undergrads who get financial aid (100%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (76%)
• in-state freshmen (63.2%)
• full-time retention rate (55%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (50.8%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (46%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (9.5%)
• disabled students (8%)
• minorities (5.3%)
• Blacks or African Americans (4.3%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 2.2%)
• foreign students (1.8%)
• Hispanics (0.9%)
• Asians (0.1%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -2.1%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (420)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (420)
• 25th percentile SAT writing score (390)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (530)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (520)
• 75th percentile SAT writing score (490)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• average January temperature (29.9 degrees)
• dorm capacity (656)
• first-year applicants (1,266)
• foreign students (17)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• total 75th percentile SAT score (1,540)
• yearly for-credit students (925)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (6.13)
• students per faculty member (14)
• annual rainfall (49.5 inches)
• elevation (1,120 meters)

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