trailed Oregon College of Art and Craft (10), The College of Idaho (17), U of Phoenix-Idaho Campus (30), and Oregon Inst. of Technology (31), and others, ending with Portland State Univ (5,517).

69 out of the other 112 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for grad students, e.g., Dell'Arte International School of Physical Theatre.

1. 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).
   
2. Distance calculations between two colleges use a mathematical formula for the distance on a sphere between two points.
   

Cornish College of the Arts is in Seattle, WA, is private and nonprofit, degree-granting, offers on-campus housing, its top major is design and visual communications, is on the semester system, and enrolls fewer than 1,000 students.

• average full-time teaching salary ($54,487)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($32,380)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($32,380)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($10,162)
• endowment per full-time student ($7,084)
• average undergrad student loan ($6,906)
• cost of a shared room ($6,350)
• research spending ($0.0K)
• research spending per student ($0.0)
• undergrads among full-time students (99.6%)
• undergrads who get financial aid (99%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (73%)
• full-time retention rate (66%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (63.2%)
• in-state freshmen (39.4%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (38%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (18.4%)
• minorities (17%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (11.8%)
• Hispanics (7%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 5.8%)
• Asians (5.5%)
• Blacks or African Americans (3.4%)
• foreign students (2%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (1.1%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -5.4%)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• average January temperature (43.0 degrees)
• dorm capacity (256)
• first-year applicants (955)
• foreign students (17)
• full-time grad students (3)
• full-time undergrads (767)
• grad students (3)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• undergrads (788)
• yearly for-credit students (852)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (1.17)
• students per faculty member (8)
• annual rainfall (37.7 inches)
• elevation (22 meters)

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