outdone by U of Hawaii at Manoa, Seattle Univ, and Lewis & Clark College.

outdid U of Oregon, Gonzaga Univ, U of Idaho, and U of California-Davis, and 186 others, ending with U of Puerto Rico-Rio Piedras.

1. Northwestern-ness is calculated as latitude minus longitude, both from the IPEDS Directory, 2012-13 (Provisional release) by the National Center for Education Statistics (http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds).
   
2. Information on majors and programs of study is from the Completions Data File, 2011-12 (Provisional release) as reported by the National Center for Education Statistics (http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds). Top majors are the ones that have the most conferred degrees. If it says "is in" rather than just "is", then various top majors were combined into a new attribute. For example, colleges whose top major is "in engineering" will include a college whose top major is chemical engineering, another whose top major is electrical engineering, and so on.
   

Willamette Univ is in Salem, OR, is private and nonprofit, is in the Northwest Conference, grants doctorates, has a law school, offers on-campus housing, has a Phi Beta Kappa chapter, accepts the Common Application, requires test scores for undergrad admissions, its top major is biology/biological sciences, is on the semester system, its top Masters major is business administration and management, its top Doctoral major is law, and enrolls from 1,000 to 4,999 students.

• USNews Liberal Arts College ranking (61st place)
• PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (87th place)
• research spending ($1.9M)
• average full-time teaching salary ($82,083)
• endowment per full-time student ($68,664)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($40,874)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($40,874)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($20,711)
• cost of typical room and board ($9,820)
• average undergrad student loan ($6,739)
• research spending per student ($577)
• undergrads who get financial aid (99%)
• full-time retention rate (86%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (59%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (53%)
• in-state freshmen (21.9%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (20%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 18.8%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (14.8%)
• minorities (13%)
• disabled students (9%)
• foreign students (6.4%)
• Hispanics (5.2%)
• Asians (5.1%)
• Blacks or African Americans (1.5%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (1.2%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -15.8%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (560)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (560)
• 25th percentile SAT writing score (540)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (660)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (680)
• 75th percentile SAT writing score (650)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (4)
• average January temperature (41.2 degrees)
• dorm capacity (1,463)
• first-year applicants (6,462)
• foreign students (207)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (3)
• total 75th percentile SAT score (1,990)
• yearly for-credit students (3,242)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (2.98)
• students per faculty member (10)
• annual rainfall (39.7 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.01)
• elevation (50 meters)

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