beat Ashford Univ (5,951), DeVry Univ-Illinois (5,795), ITT Technical Institute-Indianapolis (4,024), and Monroe College (3,862), and others, ending with South Univ-Cleveland (0).

480 out of the other 790 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for first-year applicants, e.g., Academy of Art Univ.

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. The type of college is from the IPEDS Directory, 2012-13 (Provisional release) by the National Center for Education Statistics and combines public/private, profit/nonprofit, length of degree program, etc (http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds).
   

Grand Canyon Univ is in Phoenix, AZ, is private and for-profit, grants doctorates, has a nursing major, has its top Doctoral major in education, has its top Masters major in education, has its top major in nursing, offers on-campus housing, is on the semester system, and enrolls 20,000 or more students.

• PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (716th place)
• average full-time teaching salary ($54,148)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($12,937)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($8,684)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($8,684)
• average undergrad student loan ($6,755)
• cost of a shared room ($4,400)
• endowment per full-time student ($0)
• undergrads who get financial aid (98%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (73%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (66.3%)
• full-time retention rate (65%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (47%)
• minorities (38%)
• in-state freshmen (28.7%)
• Blacks or African Americans (25.9%)
• Hispanics (8.2%)
• Asians (3.1%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, 1.1%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.8%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• foreign students (0%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (-0.4%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, -1.1%)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• average January temperature (57.1 degrees)
• dorm capacity (3,198)
• first-year applicants (11,279)
• foreign students (31)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• yearly for-credit students (71,712)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (0.2)
• students per faculty member (19)
• annual rainfall (8.2 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.07)
• elevation (348 meters)

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