outdid Widener Univ-Harrisburg Campus (29.7%), Kaplan Univ-Hagerstown Campus (21.7%), Penn State-York (17.5%), and York College Pennsylvania (16.1%), and others, ending with U of Phoenix-Harrisburg Campus (-70.2%).

2 out of the other 31 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for average teaching salary differential (men vs. women), e.g., Elizabethtown College School of Continuing and Professional Studies.

1. Teaching salaries for men and women are from the Salary Outlays for Full-time Instructional Staff by Contract Length, Gender, and Academic Rank: 2011-12 (Final/revised 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.
   

The Dickinson School of Law of the Penn State is in Carlisle, PA, is public, grants doctorates, has a law school, is on the semester system, its top Doctoral major is law, and enrolls fewer than 1,000 students.

• average full-time teaching salary ($119,851)
• endowment per full-time student ($86,998)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 31%)
• minorities (10.8%)
• foreign students (4.8%)
• Hispanics (4.5%)
• Blacks or African Americans (3.3%)
• Asians (3%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -23.7%)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• average January temperature (29.6 degrees)
• foreign students (13)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• yearly for-credit students (269)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (0)
• annual rainfall (43.5 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.10)
• elevation (145 meters)

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