beat out by Mount Ida College (98.5%), Berklee College of Music (98.3%), Wentworth Inst. of Technology (96.3%), and U of New Hampshire at Manchester (94.7%).

Incidentally, none of the 5 grants doctorates.

beat Bryant Univ (93%), Roger Williams Univ (92.1%), Merrimack College (91.1%), and Eastern Nazarene College (90.7%), and others, ending with Lesley Univ (33.4%).

67 out of the other 100 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for undergrads among full-time students, e.g., Bentley Univ.

1. The percentage of ethnic groups or other types of students among all full-time students is calculated from the 12-month Unduplicated Head Count Data File, 2011-12 (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.
   

Massachusetts College of Art and Design is in Boston, MA, is public, degree-granting, offers on-campus housing, has its top Masters major in education, requires test scores for undergrad admissions, its top major is illustration, is on the semester system, and enrolls from 1,000 to 4,999 students.

• PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (566th place)
• average full-time teaching salary ($76,893)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($27,500)
• cost of typical room and board ($12,150)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($10,400)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($8,001)
• average undergrad student loan ($7,570)
• endowment per full-time student ($7,129)
• research spending ($0.0K)
• research spending per student ($0.0)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (164.4%)
• undergrads among full-time students (93.7%)
• full-time retention rate (88%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (76.3%)
• undergrads who get financial aid (73%)
• in-state freshmen (65.7%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (62%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (30%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (20.9%)
• grad students who are under 25 years old (19.7%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (12.7%)
• minorities (10.3%)
• disabled students (8%)
• Asians (4.1%)
• Hispanics (3.8%)
• foreign students (2.3%)
• Blacks or African Americans (2.2%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, 1.4%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.2%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, -1.4%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (490)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (500)
• 25th percentile SAT writing score (490)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (590)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (610)
• 75th percentile SAT writing score (600)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• average January temperature (26.9 degrees)
• dorm capacity (658)
• first-year applicants (1,368)
• foreign students (71)
• full-time grad students (119)
• full-time undergrads (1,637)
• grad students (147)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• total 75th percentile SAT score (1,800)
• undergrads (2,179)
• yearly for-credit students (3,112)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (1.0)
• students per faculty member (10)
• annual rainfall (49.7 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.10)
• elevation (2 meters)

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