bested Navajo Technical College (143.7%), American Indian College of the Assemblies of God Inc (46.7%), and Northern Arizona Univ (39.8%).

Incidentally, all 4 offer a meal plan.

surpassed Brown Mackie College-Phoenix (34%), Brown Mackie College-Tucson (32.5%), Southern Utah Univ (32.2%), and CollegeAmerica-Phoenix (26.1%), and others, ending with Le Cordon Bleu College of Culinary Arts-Scottsdale (-27.2%).

24 out of the other 81 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for tuition & fees increase over three years, e.g., Thunderbird School of Global Management.

1. The tuition & fees increase over the last three years refers to the 2009-10 and 2012-13 periods 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. Distance calculations between two colleges use a mathematical formula for the distance on a sphere between two points.
   

Arizona Christian Univ is in Phoenix, AZ, is private and nonprofit, is religiously affiliated but nondenominational, degree-granting, offers on-campus housing, has its top major in business, requires test scores for undergrad admissions, is on the semester system, its top Associates major is liberal arts and sciences/liberal studies, and enrolls fewer than 1,000 students.

• average full-time teaching salary ($54,932)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($21,040)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($21,040)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($12,128)
• average undergrad student loan ($5,595)
• cost of a shared room ($4,670)
• endowment per full-time student ($4,105)
• research spending ($0.0K)
• research spending per student ($0.0)
• undergrads who get financial aid (98%)
• in-state freshmen (67.7%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (67%)
• full-time retention rate (67%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (53.7%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (45%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (38.7%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 13.9%)
• minorities (13.2%)
• Hispanics (6.8%)
• Blacks or African Americans (3.9%)
• Asians (1.4%)
• foreign students (1.1%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (1.1%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -12.2%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (450)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (450)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (578)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (580)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• average January temperature (54.6 degrees)
• dorm capacity (246)
• first-year applicants (310)
• foreign students (7)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• yearly for-credit students (643)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (4.15)
• students per faculty member (16)
• annual rainfall (10.8 inches)
• elevation (438 meters)

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