U of Washington is first.

outdid Oregon State, U of Oregon, Washington State Univ, and U of San Francisco, and 85 others, ending with Jacksonville Univ.

1. The data on Men's NCAA Division I Final Four appearances is from Wikipedia, and is current through the 2014 series.
   
2. Northwestern-ness is calculated as latitude minus longitude, both from the IPEDS Directory, 2012-13 (Provisional release) by the National Center for Education Statistics (http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds).
   

Seattle Univ is in Seattle, WA, is private and nonprofit, is Roman Catholic, accepts the Common Application, grants doctorates, 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 quarter system, its top Masters major is business administration and management, its top Doctoral major is law, and enrolls from 5,000 to 9,999 students.

• USNews law school ranking (102nd place)
• PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (360th place)
• Webometrics world ranking (1,330th place)
• average full-time teaching salary ($80,229)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($34,800)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($34,800)
• endowment per full-time student ($25,427)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($15,246)
• average undergrad student loan ($7,525)
• cost of a shared room ($6,396)
• research spending ($0.0K)
• research spending per student ($0.0)
• undergrads who get financial aid (96%)
• full-time retention rate (87%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (61%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (61%)
• in-state freshmen (40.4%)
• minorities (25.7%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (20%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (18.6%)
• Asians (14%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 13.9%)
• foreign students (7.7%)
• Hispanics (7%)
• Blacks or African Americans (3.9%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.8%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -12.2%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (540)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (530)
• 25th percentile SAT writing score (530)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (640)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (640)
• 75th percentile SAT writing score (630)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (1)
• average January temperature (43.0 degrees)
• dorm capacity (2,135)
• first-year applicants (6,862)
• foreign students (682)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (1)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (2)
• total 75th percentile SAT score (1,910)
• yearly for-credit students (8,817)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (0.8)
• students per faculty member (12)
• annual rainfall (37.7 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.17)
• elevation (104 meters)

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