nearest others are U of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Rivier Univ, U of Maine at Fort Kent, and Oklahoma Wesleyan Univ.

1. 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.
   
2. Distance calculations between two colleges use a mathematical formula for the distance on a sphere between two points.
   

Duquesne is in Pittsburgh, PA, is private and nonprofit, is in the Northeast Conference, is Roman Catholic, research intensive, has a law school, has a nursing major, has had a Final Four men's basketball team, has its top major in nursing, offers on-campus housing, requires test scores for undergrad admissions, is on the semester system, its top Masters major is liberal arts and sciences/liberal studies, its top Doctoral major is pharmacy, and enrolls from 5,000 to 9,999 students.

• USNews law school ranking (144th place)
• PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (374th place)
• Webometrics world ranking (1,214th place)
• research spending ($13.2M)
• average full-time teaching salary ($81,832)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($30,034)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($30,034)
• endowment per full-time student ($18,529)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($15,538)
• average undergrad student loan ($8,384)
• cost of a shared room ($5,562)
• research spending per student ($1,163)
• undergrads who get financial aid (100%)
• full-time retention rate (89%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (75%)
• in-state freshmen (71.2%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (59.8%)
• undergrads among full-time students (58.6%)
• grad students who are under 25 years old (42.5%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 23.8%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (21%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (13.5%)
• minorities (9.5%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (6.1%)
• Blacks or African Americans (5%)
• foreign students (4.8%)
• Asians (2.2%)
• Hispanics (2.1%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.2%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -19.2%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (530)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (510)
• 25th percentile SAT writing score (510)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (610)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (590)
• 75th percentile SAT writing score (600)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (50)
• average January temperature (28.8 degrees)
• dorm capacity (3,774)
• first-year applicants (6,659)
• foreign students (541)
• full-time grad students (3,469)
• full-time undergrads (5,650)
• grad students (4,124)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (1)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• total 75th percentile SAT score (1,800)
• undergrads (5,832)
• yearly for-credit students (11,368)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (0.4)
• students per faculty member (14)
• annual rainfall (39.3 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.05)
• elevation (247 meters)

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