U of Alaska Fairbanks is first.

Incidentally, both are in the Far West.

outdid Saint Martin's Univ, Southern Oregon Univ, Bainbridge Graduate Institute, and Five Branches Univ, and 126 others, ending with Inter American U of Puerto Rico-Fajardo.

1. 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).
   
2. College geographic information is from the IPEDS Directory, 2012-13 (Provisional release) by the National Center for Education Statistics (http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds).
   

The Evergreen State College is in Olympia, WA, is public, degree-granting, offers on-campus housing, requires test scores for undergrad admissions, its top major is liberal arts and sciences/liberal studies, is on the quarter system, its top Masters major is public administration, and enrolls from 1,000 to 4,999 students.

• PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (891st place)
• research spending ($100K)
• average full-time teaching salary ($64,354)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($19,561)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($8,395)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($6,480)
• cost of a shared room ($6,150)
• average undergrad student loan ($5,462)
• endowment per full-time student ($1,670)
• research spending per student ($23)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (133%)
• undergrads among full-time students (93%)
• undergrads who get financial aid (84%)
• full-time retention rate (72%)
• in-state freshmen (53.6%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (52.4%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (44%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (33.9%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (31%)
• minorities (16.3%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (15.2%)
• grad students who are under 25 years old (11.4%)
• disabled students (7%)
• Hispanics (6.3%)
• Blacks or African Americans (4.6%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 2.7%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (2.7%)
• Asians (2.7%)
• foreign students (0.5%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -2.6%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (460)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (510)
• 25th percentile SAT writing score (470)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (590)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (640)
• 75th percentile SAT writing score (600)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• average January temperature (39.8 degrees)
• dorm capacity (950)
• first-year applicants (1,650)
• foreign students (30)
• full-time grad students (199)
• full-time undergrads (3,872)
• grad students (316)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• total 75th percentile SAT score (1,830)
• undergrads (4,193)
• yearly for-credit students (5,773)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (3.12)
• students per faculty member (21)
• annual rainfall (50.0 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.19)
• elevation (68 meters)

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