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What's exceptional about Polk State College (polk) ?

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fewer debtors; high tuition surcharge

Polk State College has the highest non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (269.4%) of the 136 colleges with at most 3% of undergrads who receive student loans. That 269.4% compares to an average of 8.9% across the 136 colleges.



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after Polk State College (269.4%, 3%), closest are Seattle Community College-South Campus (135.7%, 1%), Seattle Community College-Central Campus (133.3%, 0%), U of Puerto Rico-Carolina (92%, 3%), and Northern Marianas College (80.9%, 0%), ending with Be'er Yaakov Talmudic Seminary (0%, 0%).

2 out of the other 135 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for non-resident tuition & fees surcharge, e.g., Allied American Univ.

References

  1. Tuition and fees are 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. 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).

Profile

Polk State College is in Winter Haven, FL, is public, open admission, degree-granting, has a nursing major, has an emergency medical technology program, has its top major in business, is on the semester system, its top Associates major is liberal arts and sciences/liberal studies, and enrolls from 10,000 to 19,999 students.

  • average full-time teaching salary ($53,455)
  • out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($12,211)
  • average grant aid to undergrads ($4,352)
  • average undergrad student loan ($3,497)
  • in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($3,306)
  • endowment per full-time student ($1,390)
  • research spending ($0.0K)
  • research spending per student ($0.0)
  • non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (269.4%)
  • in-state freshmen (98.8%)
  • undergrads who get financial aid (76%)
  • undergrads who get Pell grants (61%)
  • minorities (36.7%)
  • undergrads who are 25 years or older (36.1%)
  • tuition & fees increase over three years (27.3%)
  • Blacks or African Americans (19.2%)
  • Hispanics (14.9%)
  • undergrads who receive student loans (3%)
  • Asians (2.3%)
  • average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 2.2%)
  • foreign students (0.7%)
  • American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.3%)
  • average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -2.2%)
  • alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
  • average January temperature (62.2 degrees)
  • foreign students (118)
  • full-time undergrads (3,849)
  • members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
  • men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
  • Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
  • undergrads (11,862)
  • yearly for-credit students (16,397)
  • on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (0.1)
  • students per faculty member (21)
  • annual rainfall (51.1 inches)
  • diversity and inclusion ratio (0.09)
  • elevation (41 meters)

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