bested Southern California Inst. of Architecture (38.8%), International Academy of Design and Technology-Sacramento (32.6%), Pacific States Univ (31.7%), and California College-San Diego (31.1%).

Incidentally, all 5 are in a large city.

surpassed Epic Bible College (27.8%), The National Hispanic Univ (23.4%), Otis College of Art and Design (22.1%), and Southern Caltech (21.5%), and others, ending with Horizon Univ (-62.8%).

81 out of the other 258 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for tuition & fees increase over three years, e.g., UC San Francisco.

1. College geographic information is from the IPEDS Directory, 2012-13 (Provisional release) by the National Center for Education Statistics (http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds).
   
2. 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).
   

Design Inst. of San Diego is in San Diego, CA, is private and for-profit, open admission, degree-granting, its top major is interior design, is on the semester system, and enrolls fewer than 1,000 students.

• average full-time teaching salary ($69,092)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($20,470)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($20,470)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($6,518)
• average undergrad student loan ($5,695)
• endowment per full-time student ($0)
• undergrads who get financial aid (83%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (75%)
• in-state freshmen (55.6%)
• full-time retention rate (50%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (49%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (42%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (30.4%)
• minorities (24%)
• Hispanics (14.1%)
• Asians (5.6%)
• Blacks or African Americans (4.3%)
• foreign students (3.3%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0%)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• average January temperature (57.1 degrees)
• foreign students (10)
• full-time undergrads (136)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• undergrads (204)
• yearly for-credit students (304)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (0)
• students per faculty member (11)
• annual rainfall (10.3 inches)
• elevation (79 meters)

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