nearest others are Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah Law School, U of Phoenix-Savannah Campus, and Savannah State Univ.

1. College geographic information is from the IPEDS Directory, 2012-13 (Provisional 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.
   

U of South Carolina-Beaufort is in Bluffton, SC, is public, degree-granting, has a nursing major, has its top major in business, offers on-campus housing, requires test scores for undergrad admissions, is on the semester system, its top Associates major is liberal arts and sciences/liberal studies, and enrolls from 1,000 to 4,999 students.

• research spending ($400K)
• average full-time teaching salary ($57,541)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($17,956)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($8,558)
• average undergrad student loan ($7,526)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($6,149)
• cost of a shared room ($4,850)
• research spending per student ($165)
• endowment per full-time student ($49)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (109.8%)
• undergrads who get financial aid (92%)
• in-state freshmen (80.5%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (68%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (62.4%)
• full-time retention rate (50%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (47%)
• minorities (27.1%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (22.9%)
• Blacks or African Americans (19.1%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (18.3%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 17.7%)
• Hispanics (6.3%)
• Asians (1.2%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.5%)
• foreign students (0.4%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -15%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (420)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (420)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (520)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (510)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• average January temperature (50.0 degrees)
• dorm capacity (476)
• first-year applicants (1,434)
• foreign students (10)
• full-time undergrads (1,392)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• undergrads (1,828)
• yearly for-credit students (2,240)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (0.4)
• students per faculty member (17)
• annual rainfall (50.3 inches)
• elevation (4 meters)

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