nearest others are American Indian College of the Assemblies of God Inc, SUM Bible College and Theological Seminary, Epic Bible College, and Northwest Univ.

1. The college's religious affiliation (if any) 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. Distance calculations between two colleges use a mathematical formula for the distance on a sphere between two points.
   

Vanguard USC is in Costa Mesa, CA, is private and nonprofit, is of the Assemblies of God Church, degree-granting, has a nursing major, offers on-campus housing, requires test scores for undergrad admissions, its top major is psychology, is on the semester system, its top Masters major is clinical psychology, and enrolls from 1,000 to 4,999 students.

• average full-time teaching salary ($64,242)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($28,500)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($28,500)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($19,114)
• average undergrad student loan ($6,638)
• cost of a shared room ($4,700)
• endowment per full-time student ($1,670)
• research spending ($0.0K)
• research spending per student ($0.0)
• undergrads who get financial aid (100%)
• in-state freshmen (88%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (78%)
• full-time retention rate (76%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (67.4%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (45%)
• minorities (35.4%)
• Hispanics (24%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (12%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 9.4%)
• Asians (5.5%)
• Blacks or African Americans (5%)
• foreign students (1.2%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.9%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -8.6%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (440)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (450)
• 25th percentile SAT writing score (440)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (540)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (550)
• 75th percentile SAT writing score (540)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• average January temperature (56.7 degrees)
• dorm capacity (971)
• first-year applicants (1,519)
• foreign students (32)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• total 75th percentile SAT score (1,630)
• yearly for-credit students (2,777)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (2.52)
• students per faculty member (17)
• annual rainfall (13.3 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.01)
• elevation (22 meters)

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