beat out by Marymount College ($22,287), Kansas City Art Inst. ($20,307), Martin Methodist College ($19,055), and Concordia Univ-Saint Paul ($19,038).

Incidentally, all 5 offer a meal plan.

beat Hellenic College-Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology ($17,094), Lindsey Wilson College ($16,660), Manhattan College ($16,438), and U of Pikeville ($15,618), 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).
   

Briar Cliff Univ is in Sioux City, IA, is private and nonprofit, is in the Great Plains Athletic Conference, is Roman Catholic, open admission, degree-granting, has a nursing major, has its top Masters major in nursing, has its top major in business, offers on-campus housing, is on the semester system, and enrolls from 1,000 to 4,999 students.

• PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (979th place)
• average full-time teaching salary ($49,640)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($25,642)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($25,642)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($18,513)
• endowment per full-time student ($8,312)
• average undergrad student loan ($7,110)
• cost of a shared room ($3,722)
• research spending ($0.0K)
• research spending per student ($0.0)
• undergrads who get financial aid (94%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (85%)
• full-time retention rate (57%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (43%)
• in-state freshmen (35.2%)
• minorities (21.2%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (13.8%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 10.1%)
• Hispanics (9.6%)
• Blacks or African Americans (7.4%)
• Asians (2.9%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (1.3%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• foreign students (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -9.1%)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• dorm capacity (577)
• foreign students (0)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• yearly for-credit students (1,286)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (5.44)
• students per faculty member (13)
• annual rainfall (31.3 inches)
• elevation (363 meters)

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