St John's College is first with 251.

Incidentally, both enroll fewer than 1,000 students.

trailed Santa Fe U of Art and Design (347), New Mexico Inst. of Mining and Technology (665), Oklahoma Panhandle State Univ (964), and Lubbock Christian Univ (979), and others, ending with Northern Arizona Univ (34,461).

28 out of the other 48 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for first-year applicants, e.g., Inst. of American Indian and Alaska Native Culture.

1. The number of total first-year applicants is from the Institutional Characteristics Data File 2012-2013 (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.
   

ITT Technical Institute-Albuquerque is in Albuquerque, NM, is private and for-profit, degree-granting, has its top Associates major in nursing, has its top major in criminal justice, is on the quarter system, and enrolls fewer than 1,000 students.

• average full-time teaching salary ($57,497)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($19,344)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($19,344)
• average undergrad student loan ($7,359)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($4,473)
• endowment per full-time student ($0)
• in-state freshmen (100%)
• undergrads who get financial aid (87%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (78%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (76%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (71%)
• minorities (46.8%)
• Hispanics (31.6%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (18.2%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (11.3%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (5.3%)
• Blacks or African Americans (3.3%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, 2%)
• Asians (0.6%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• foreign students (0%)
• full-time retention rate (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, -2%)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• average January temperature (34.3 degrees)
• first-year applicants (257)
• foreign students (0)
• full-time undergrads (389)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• undergrads (536)
• yearly for-credit students (1,164)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (0)
• students per faculty member (9)
• annual rainfall (10.1 inches)
• elevation (1,576 meters)

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