outdid Colorado School of Mines (1,759 meters), Colorado Mountain College (1,746 meters), Colorado State Univ-Global Campus (1,739 meters), and Northcentral Univ (1,510 meters), and others, ending with Olympic College (0 meters).

1 out of the other 277 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. The college's size is from the IPEDS Directory, 2012-13 (Provisional release) by the National Center for Education Statistics (http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds).
   

Southern Utah Univ is in Cedar City, UT, is public, is in the Big Sky Conference, degree-granting, has a carpentry program, has a nursing major, has its top Masters major in education, offers on-campus housing, requires test scores for undergrad admissions, its top major is psychology, is on the semester system, its top Associates major is general studies, and enrolls from 5,000 to 9,999 students.

• PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (751st place)
• research spending ($100K)
• average full-time teaching salary ($58,631)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($16,984)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($5,576)
• average undergrad student loan ($4,099)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($3,890)
• cost of a shared room ($2,878)
• endowment per full-time student ($2,852)
• research spending per student ($4)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (204.6%)
• undergrads among full-time students (92%)
• undergrads who get financial aid (86%)
• in-state freshmen (79.2%)
• full-time retention rate (66%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (63%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (62.3%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (37%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (32.2%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (23.1%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 14.2%)
• grad students who are under 25 years old (9.9%)
• minorities (7.2%)
• Hispanics (3.7%)
• foreign students (3.6%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (1.3%)
• Blacks or African Americans (1.2%)
• Asians (1%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -12.5%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (460)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (460)
• 25th percentile SAT writing score (430)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (570)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (560)
• 75th percentile SAT writing score (540)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (7)
• average January temperature (29.1 degrees)
• dorm capacity (725)
• first-year applicants (6,375)
• foreign students (583)
• full-time grad students (170)
• full-time undergrads (5,552)
• grad students (664)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• total 75th percentile SAT score (1,670)
• undergrads (7,633)
• yearly for-credit students (16,031)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (0.2)
• students per faculty member (21)
• annual rainfall (11.3 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.03)
• elevation (1,787 meters)

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