outdone by U of Alaska Anchorage, Hawaii Pacific Univ, Olympic College, and Seattle Univ.

outdid U of Portland, Linfield College-Nursing & Health Sciences, Oregon Health & Science Univ, and Walla Walla Univ, and 330 others, ending with Centro de Estudios Multidisciplinarios-Humacao.

1. Northwestern-ness is calculated as latitude minus longitude, both from the IPEDS Directory, 2012-13 (Provisional release) by the National Center for Education Statistics (http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds).
   
2. Information on majors and programs of study is from the Completions Data File, 2011-12 (Provisional release) as reported by the National Center for Education Statistics (http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds). Top majors are the ones that have the most conferred degrees. If it says "is in" rather than just "is", then various top majors were combined into a new attribute. For example, colleges whose top major is "in engineering" will include a college whose top major is chemical engineering, another whose top major is electrical engineering, and so on.
   

Pacific Lutheran Univ is in Tacoma, WA, is private and nonprofit, is in the Northwest Conference, is of the Evangelical Lutheran Church, degree-granting, accepts the Common Application, has a nursing major, has its top Masters major in education, has its top major in nursing, offers on-campus housing, requires test scores for undergrad admissions, is on a four-one-four calendar, and enrolls from 1,000 to 4,999 students.

• PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (213th place)
• research spending ($300K)
• average full-time teaching salary ($65,567)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($33,100)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($33,100)
• endowment per full-time student ($20,090)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($18,669)
• average undergrad student loan ($6,400)
• cost of a shared room ($4,640)
• research spending per student ($84)
• undergrads who get financial aid (99%)
• undergrads among full-time students (91.2%)
• full-time retention rate (83%)
• in-state freshmen (76.9%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (73%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (63.5%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (28%)
• grad students who are under 25 years old (21.5%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (17.8%)
• minorities (14.7%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 11.9%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (9.9%)
• Hispanics (5.5%)
• Asians (5.5%)
• foreign students (4.6%)
• Blacks or African Americans (2.8%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.9%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -10.6%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (490)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (480)
• 25th percentile SAT writing score (470)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (610)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (610)
• 75th percentile SAT writing score (590)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (3)
• average January temperature (42.8 degrees)
• dorm capacity (1,755)
• first-year applicants (3,550)
• foreign students (177)
• full-time grad students (165)
• full-time undergrads (3,028)
• grad students (307)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (1)
• total 75th percentile SAT score (1,810)
• undergrads (3,166)
• yearly for-credit students (3,864)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (5.09)
• students per faculty member (14)
• annual rainfall (39.2 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.07)
• elevation (100 meters)

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