closest are Appalachian State Univ (950 meters), Jung Tao School of Classical Chinese Medicine (935 meters), Lees-McRae College (1,120 meters), and Montreat College (920 meters), ending with Hawaii College of Oriental Medicine (956 meters).

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

Bluefield State College is in Bluefield, WV, is public, degree-granting, historically black, has a nursing major, has its top Associates major in nursing, requires test scores for undergrad admissions, its top major is general studies, is on the semester system, and enrolls from 1,000 to 4,999 students.

• research spending ($200K)
• average full-time teaching salary ($56,567)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($9,944)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($5,180)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($5,154)
• average undergrad student loan ($5,046)
• endowment per full-time student ($723)
• research spending per student ($65)
• undergrads who get financial aid (96%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (92%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (92%)
• in-state freshmen (82.4%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (72%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (63.3%)
• full-time retention rate (53%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (43.1%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 17.9%)
• minorities (12.2%)
• Blacks or African Americans (11.1%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (10.5%)
• foreign students (3.6%)
• Hispanics (0.8%)
• Asians (0.2%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.1%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -15.2%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (405)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (405)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (515)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (495)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• average January temperature (30.2 degrees)
• first-year applicants (980)
• foreign students (91)
• full-time undergrads (1,583)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• undergrads (1,935)
• yearly for-credit students (2,531)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (0.3)
• students per faculty member (17)
• annual rainfall (41.6 inches)
• elevation (907 meters)

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