Incidentally, both are in the suburbs of a large city.

1. Information on majors and programs of study is from the Completions Data File, 2011-12 (Provisional release) as reported by the National Center for Education Statistics (http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds). Top majors are the ones that have the most conferred degrees. If it says "is in" rather than just "is", then various top majors were combined into a new attribute. For example, colleges whose top major is "in engineering" will include a college whose top major is chemical engineering, another whose top major is electrical engineering, and so on.
   
2. Distance calculations between two colleges use a mathematical formula for the distance on a sphere between two points.
   

ITT Technical Institute-Earth City is in Earth City, MO, is private and for-profit, degree-granting, its top major is computer and information systems security/information assurance, is on the quarter system, its top Associates major is computer systems networking and telecommunications, and enrolls fewer than 1,000 students.

• average full-time teaching salary ($55,227)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($18,048)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($18,048)
• average undergrad student loan ($9,704)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($5,093)
• endowment per full-time student ($0)
• in-state freshmen (100%)
• undergrads who get financial aid (87%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (82%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (67.4%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (65%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (44.6%)
• minorities (34.5%)
• Blacks or African Americans (32.2%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (5.2%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, 4.1%)
• Hispanics (1%)
• Asians (0.8%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.5%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• foreign students (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, -3.9%)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• average January temperature (30.1 degrees)
• first-year applicants (432)
• foreign students (0)
• full-time undergrads (471)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• undergrads (659)
• yearly for-credit students (1,487)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (0)
• students per faculty member (18)
• annual rainfall (43.1 inches)
• elevation (132 meters)

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