beat Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art (74.6%), Sweet Briar College (68.8%), Bucknell (62.2%), and Alderson Broaddus College (54.5%), and others, ending with Thomas Edison State College (0.5%).

346 out of the other 527 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for grad students who are under 25 years old, e.g., Mesivtha Tifereth Jerusalem of America.

1. Distance calculations between two colleges use a mathematical formula for the distance on a sphere between two points.
   
2. Information on numbers and ages of the undergrad and graduate student body is from the file enrollment by age, gender, attendance status, and level of student: Fall 2012 (Provisional release) as reported by the National Center for Education Statistics (http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds).
   

Christopher Newport Univ is in Newport News, VA, is public, degree-granting, offers on-campus housing, accepts the Common Application, has its top Masters major in education, its top major is speech communication and rhetoric, is on the semester system, and enrolls from 5,000 to 9,999 students.

• PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (921st place)
• research spending ($2.1M)
• average full-time teaching salary ($66,600)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($20,122)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($10,572)
• cost of a shared room ($6,358)
• average undergrad student loan ($6,189)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($4,070)
• endowment per full-time student ($3,356)
• research spending per student ($401)
• undergrads among full-time students (97.3%)
• in-state freshmen (93.2%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (90.3%)
• full-time retention rate (85%)
• undergrads who get financial aid (76%)
• grad students who are under 25 years old (75%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (56%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (54%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (24.3%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (18%)
• minorities (14.8%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 14.6%)
• disabled students (8%)
• Blacks or African Americans (7.9%)
• Hispanics (4.7%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (2.4%)
• Asians (2%)
• foreign students (0.4%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.2%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -12.7%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (540)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (530)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (610)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (630)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• average January temperature (40.7 degrees)
• dorm capacity (3,259)
• first-year applicants (6,831)
• foreign students (22)
• full-time grad students (98)
• full-time undergrads (4,926)
• grad students (140)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• undergrads (5,046)
• yearly for-credit students (5,171)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (1.16)
• students per faculty member (17)
• annual rainfall (45.4 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.04)
• elevation (9 meters)

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