outdone by Inst. of Taoist Education and Acupuncture (1,649 meters), New Mexico State Univ (1,195 meters), Northwest Nazarene Univ (763 meters), and The College of Idaho (732 meters).

Incidentally, none of the 5 is a top-Green college.

outdid Frostburg State Univ (603 meters), Southern Oregon Univ (590 meters), Milligan College (517 meters), and United Tribes Technical College (504 meters), and others, ending with Five Branches Univ (0 meters).

1 out of the other 131 colleges was ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for elevation, i.e., U of Alaska Fairbanks.

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. Whether a college is rural, suburban, or in a town, city, or big city, is from the IPEDS Directory, 2012-13 (Provisional release) by the National Center for Education Statistics (http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds).
   

U of Pittsburgh-Johnstown is in Johnstown, PA, is public, degree-granting, offers on-campus housing, has its top major in business, requires test scores for undergrad admissions, is on the semester system, its top Associates major is respiratory care therapy/therapist, and enrolls from 1,000 to 4,999 students.

• average full-time teaching salary ($56,962)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($23,288)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($12,892)
• endowment per full-time student ($10,629)
• average undergrad student loan ($7,681)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($6,518)
• cost of a shared room ($5,180)
• research spending per student ($2)
• research spending ($0.0K)
• in-state freshmen (93.3%)
• undergrads who get financial aid (90%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (80.6%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (78%)
• full-time retention rate (73%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (46.8%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (30%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 10.6%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (9.3%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (5.8%)
• minorities (5.8%)
• Blacks or African Americans (2.8%)
• foreign students (1.7%)
• Hispanics (1.5%)
• Asians (1.4%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.1%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -9.6%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (460)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (450)
• 25th percentile SAT writing score (430)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (560)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (540)
• 75th percentile SAT writing score (530)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (1)
• average January temperature (25.2 degrees)
• dorm capacity (1,838)
• first-year applicants (1,613)
• foreign students (52)
• full-time undergrads (2,823)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• total 75th percentile SAT score (1,630)
• undergrads (2,932)
• yearly for-credit students (3,128)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (0.8)
• students per faculty member (20)
• annual rainfall (41.1 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.02)
• elevation (666 meters)

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