outdone by U of Wyoming (2,197 meters), Northern Arizona Univ (2,102 meters), U of Colorado Colorado Springs (1,945 meters), and Colorado Technical Univ-Colorado Springs (1,881 meters).

Incidentally, none of the 5 is religiously affiliated.

outdid Jones International Univ (1,768 meters), Colorado School of Mines (1,759 meters), Colorado Technical Univ-Greenwood Village (1,720 meters), and American Sentinel Univ (1,709 meters), and others, ending with New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary (-1 meter).

3 out of the other 1,022 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for elevation, e.g., U of Alaska Fairbanks.

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. Information on types of degree granted is from the IPEDS Directory, 2012-13 (Provisional release) by the National Center for Education Statistics (http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds).
   

U of the Rockies is in Colorado Springs, CO, is private and for-profit, grants doctorates, its top Masters major is organizational behavior studies, its top Doctoral major is clinical psychology, and enrolls from 1,000 to 4,999 students.

• average full-time teaching salary ($56,682)
• endowment per full-time student ($0)
• minorities (46.4%)
• Blacks or African Americans (33.2%)
• Hispanics (8.4%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, 5.6%)
• grad students who are under 25 years old (4.9%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (2.8%)
• Asians (2%)
• foreign students (0.1%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, -5.3%)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• average January temperature (30.5 degrees)
• foreign students (3)
• full-time grad students (1,712)
• grad students (2,015)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• yearly for-credit students (3,855)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (0)
• annual rainfall (16.5 inches)
• elevation (1,839 meters)

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