outdid U of Alaska Fairbanks (19.2%), Alaska Pacific Univ (9.2%), Oklahoma State Univ Center for Health Sciences (7.6%), and U of Alaska Anchorage (6.7%), and others, ending with Inst. for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts (0%).

1 out of the other 1,022 colleges was ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for American Indians or Alaska Natives, i.e., Savannah Law School.

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. Information on types of degree granted is from the IPEDS Directory, 2012-13 (Provisional release) by the National Center for Education Statistics (http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds).
   

Northeastern State Univ is in Tahlequah, OK, is public, is in the Mid-America Intercollegiate Ath Assoc, grants doctorates, has a nursing major, has its top Masters major in education, has its top major in education, offers on-campus housing, requires test scores for undergrad admissions, is on the semester system, its top Doctoral major is optometry, and enrolls from 5,000 to 9,999 students.

• PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (927th place)
• research spending ($1.3M)
• average full-time teaching salary ($54,302)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($11,607)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($5,028)
• average undergrad student loan ($5,020)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($4,857)
• cost of a shared room ($2,810)
• endowment per full-time student ($1,577)
• research spending per student ($121)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (139%)
• undergrads who get financial aid (93%)
• in-state freshmen (90.2%)
• undergrads among full-time students (86.5%)
• full-time retention rate (64%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (58%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (55.3%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (51%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (38.8%)
• minorities (33.2%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (24.1%)
• grad students who are under 25 years old (16%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 13.5%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (13.3%)
• Blacks or African Americans (5.1%)
• Hispanics (2.5%)
• foreign students (1.9%)
• Asians (1.5%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -11.9%)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• average January temperature (38.1 degrees)
• dorm capacity (1,857)
• first-year applicants (1,930)
• foreign students (213)
• full-time grad students (416)
• full-time undergrads (5,362)
• grad students (1,173)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• undergrads (7,548)
• yearly for-credit students (11,114)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (1.47)
• students per faculty member (18)
• annual rainfall (50.2 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.05)
• elevation (252 meters)

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