bested Northwestern Health Sciences Univ (28.5%) and North Central Univ (25.1%).

Incidentally, all 3 are private and nonprofit.

surpassed U of Minnesota-Twin Cities (21%), Metropolitan State Univ (18.4%), Northwestern College (16.3%), and Augsburg College (15.6%), and others, ending with Herzing Univ-Minneapolis (-23.1%).

11 out of the other 53 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for tuition & fees increase over three years, e.g., William Mitchell College of Law.

1. The tuition & fees increase over the last three years refers to the 2009-10 and 2012-13 periods 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.
   

Dunwoody College of Technology is in Minneapolis, MN, is private and nonprofit, degree-granting, has an electrician program, has its top major in business, is on the semester system, its top Associates major is automobile/automotive mechanics technology/technician, and enrolls from 1,000 to 4,999 students.

• average full-time teaching salary ($55,231)
• endowment per full-time student ($18,742)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($18,154)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($18,154)
• average undergrad student loan ($9,915)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($5,418)
• research spending ($0.0K)
• research spending per student ($0.0)
• in-state freshmen (95.8%)
• undergrads who get financial aid (91%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (86%)
• full-time retention rate (67%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (44%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (23.5%)
• minorities (17.9%)
• Blacks or African Americans (7.6%)
• Asians (5.4%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 3.7%)
• Hispanics (3.7%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (3.3%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (1.2%)
• foreign students (0.2%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -3.5%)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• average January temperature (16.0 degrees)
• first-year applicants (486)
• foreign students (3)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• yearly for-credit students (1,493)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (1.79)
• students per faculty member (11)
• annual rainfall (32.8 inches)
• elevation (249 meters)

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