outdone by Southern California Inst. of Architecture ($2,000) and Allied American Univ ($3,305).

Incidentally, none of the 3 grants doctorates.

outdid Bethesda U of California ($3,355), Cogswell College ($3,594), Cal State-Los Angeles ($3,851), and Cal State-Bakersfield ($4,383), and others, ending with West Coast Univ-Ontario ($25,669).

76 out of the other 250 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for average undergrad student loan, 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. Distance calculations between two colleges use a mathematical formula for the distance on a sphere between two points.
   

Thomas Aquinas College is in Santa Paula, CA, is private and nonprofit, is Roman Catholic, degree-granting, offers on-campus housing, requires test scores for undergrad admissions, its top major is liberal arts and sciences/liberal studies, is on the semester system, and enrolls fewer than 1,000 students.

• USNews Liberal Arts College ranking (61st place)
• average full-time teaching salary ($83,001)
• endowment per full-time student ($32,204)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($23,600)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($23,600)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($14,408)
• cost of typical room and board ($7,800)
• average undergrad student loan ($3,335)
• research spending ($0.0K)
• research spending per student ($0.0)
• full-time retention rate (84%)
• undergrads who get financial aid (79%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (79%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (57.1%)
• in-state freshmen (40.5%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (32%)
• minorities (13.7%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 13.1%)
• Hispanics (12.6%)
• foreign students (5.5%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (5.4%)
• Asians (0.8%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.3%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• Blacks or African Americans (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -11.6%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (560)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (620)
• 25th percentile SAT writing score (580)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (660)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (700)
• 75th percentile SAT writing score (690)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• average January temperature (55.2 degrees)
• dorm capacity (398)
• first-year applicants (166)
• foreign students (20)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• total 75th percentile SAT score (2,050)
• yearly for-credit students (365)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (0)
• students per faculty member (11)
• annual rainfall (17.4 inches)
• elevation (299 meters)

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