bested ITT Technical Institute-Corona (41) and Everest College-Ontario Metro (40).

Incidentally, none of the 3 offers graduate degrees.

surpassed Southern Caltech (30), U of Phoenix-San Diego Campus (30), San Diego State Univ (29), and Cal State-San Bernardino (29), and others, ending with Loma Linda Univ (3).

13 out of the other 97 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for students per faculty member, e.g., Claremont Graduate Univ.

1. The student-faculty ratios are from the file total entering class, retention rates, and student-to-faculty ratio: Fall 2012 (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.
   

ITT Technical Institute-San Diego is in San Diego, CA, is private and for-profit, degree-granting, its top major is computer and information systems security/information assurance, is on the quarter system, its top Associates major is computer systems networking and telecommunications, and enrolls from 1,000 to 4,999 students.

• average full-time teaching salary ($56,622)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($18,048)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($18,048)
• average undergrad student loan ($9,055)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($3,774)
• endowment per full-time student ($0)
• in-state freshmen (100%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (72.6%)
• undergrads who get financial aid (67%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (60%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (53%)
• minorities (41.3%)
• Hispanics (27.7%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, 9.7%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (8.2%)
• Blacks or African Americans (8.1%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (5.2%)
• Asians (4.8%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.7%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• foreign students (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, -8.8%)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• average January temperature (55.1 degrees)
• first-year applicants (407)
• foreign students (0)
• full-time undergrads (1,144)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• undergrads (1,385)
• yearly for-credit students (2,683)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (0)
• students per faculty member (31)
• annual rainfall (12.5 inches)
• elevation (125 meters)

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