beat Kansas City Art Inst. ($20,307), Martin Methodist College ($19,055), Concordia Univ-Saint Paul ($19,038), and Briar Cliff Univ ($18,513), and others, ending with Strayer Univ-Mississippi ($964).

44 out of the other 702 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for average grant aid to undergrads, e.g., Pacific States Univ.

1. The data on undergrad loans, financial aid, and Pell grants are from the Student Financial Aid Data File, 2011-12 (Provisional release) as reported by the National Center for Education Statistics (http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds).
   
2. Whether a college is open admission 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).
   

Marymount College is in Rancho Palos Verdes, CA, is private and nonprofit, is Roman Catholic, open admission, degree-granting, offers on-campus housing, its top major is liberal arts and sciences/liberal studies, is on the semester system, its top Associates major is liberal arts and sciences, general studies and humanities, other, and enrolls from 1,000 to 4,999 students.

• average full-time teaching salary ($68,996)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($28,920)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($28,920)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($22,287)
• cost of typical room and board ($12,260)
• endowment per full-time student ($8,612)
• average undergrad student loan ($6,635)
• research spending ($0.0K)
• research spending per student ($0.0)
• undergrads who get financial aid (82%)
• in-state freshmen (80.5%)
• full-time retention rate (72%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (63%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (46%)
• minorities (32%)
• Hispanics (17.7%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (17.6%)
• disabled students (12%)
• Blacks or African Americans (8.9%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 7.2%)
• foreign students (6.5%)
• Asians (4.9%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.5%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -6.7%)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• average January temperature (56.1 degrees)
• dorm capacity (450)
• foreign students (67)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• yearly for-credit students (1,031)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (1.29)
• students per faculty member (17)
• annual rainfall (14.4 inches)
• elevation (177 meters)

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