outdid Shasta Bible College and Graduate School ($20,276), U of Phoenix-Northern Nevada Campus ($20,635), Dominican School of Philosophy & Theology ($31,609), and FIDM/Fashion Inst. of Design & Merchandising-San Francisco ($31,885), and others, ending with U of California Hastings College of Law ($150,546).

5 out of the other 97 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for average full-time teaching salary, e.g., California Christian College.

1. Teaching salaries for men and women are from the Salary Outlays for Full-time Instructional Staff by Contract Length, Gender, and Academic Rank: 2011-12 (Final/revised release) 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.
   

Epic Bible College is in Sacramento, CA, is private and nonprofit, is of the Assemblies of God Church, degree-granting, has its top major in a religious field, is on the quarter system, its top Associates major is pre-theology/pre-ministerial studies, and enrolls fewer than 1,000 students.

• average full-time teaching salary ($16,364)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($11,480)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($11,480)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($6,111)
• average undergrad student loan ($5,119)
• endowment per full-time student ($0)
• research spending ($0.0K)
• research spending per student ($0.0)
• in-state freshmen (100%)
• undergrads who get financial aid (83%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (75%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (71.4%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (70.5%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (58%)
• minorities (44.1%)
• full-time retention rate (43%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (27.8%)
• Blacks or African Americans (26.2%)
• Hispanics (13.1%)
• Asians (3.3%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (1.5%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 0%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, 0%)
• foreign students (0%)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• average January temperature (47.5 degrees)
• first-year applicants (25)
• foreign students (0)
• full-time undergrads (111)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• undergrads (271)
• yearly for-credit students (390)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (0.9)
• students per faculty member (12)
• annual rainfall (20.3 inches)
• elevation (27 meters)

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