outdid Piedmont International Univ (3.8%), Southern Virginia Univ (2.9%), Shorter Univ-College of Adult & Professional Programs (2.9%), and Bryant & Stratton College-Akron (2.4%), and others, ending with South Univ-Cleveland (0%).

2 out of the other 947 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for American Indians or Alaska Natives, e.g., Chamberlain College of Nursing-Georgia.

1. The percentage of ethnic groups or other types of students among all full-time students is calculated from the 12-month Unduplicated Head Count Data File, 2011-12 (Provisional release) as reported 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.
   

U of North Carolina at Pembroke is in Pembroke, NC, is public, degree-granting, more than 50% Black, Hispanic, Asian, American Indian, or Alaska Native, 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 (934th place)
• research spending ($200K)
• average full-time teaching salary ($61,380)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($14,064)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($6,219)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($4,857)
• average undergrad student loan ($4,546)
• cost of a shared room ($3,900)
• endowment per full-time student ($2,224)
• research spending per student ($29)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (189.6%)
• in-state freshmen (97%)
• undergrads who get financial aid (89%)
• undergrads among full-time students (87.8%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (73%)
• full-time retention rate (64%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (59%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (53.6%)
• minorities (51.5%)
• Blacks or African Americans (30%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (28.7%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (15.9%)
• grad students who are under 25 years old (14.8%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 14.3%)
• disabled students (11%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (8.7%)
• Hispanics (3.9%)
• Asians (1.7%)
• foreign students (1.5%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -12.5%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (430)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (410)
• 25th percentile SAT writing score (390)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (510)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (490)
• 75th percentile SAT writing score (470)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• dorm capacity (1,976)
• first-year applicants (3,316)
• foreign students (110)
• full-time grad students (170)
• full-time undergrads (4,432)
• grad students (765)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• total 75th percentile SAT score (1,470)
• undergrads (5,504)
• yearly for-credit students (7,559)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (2.65)
• students per faculty member (15)
• annual rainfall (45.9 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.36)
• elevation (52 meters)

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