outdone by Colorado Technical Univ-Online ($804), Stevens Henager College ($960), Inter American U of Puerto Rico-Ponce ($1,120), and South Texas College ($1,122).

Incidentally, none of the 5 offers a meal plan.

outdid Bellevue Univ ($1,312), Southern Univ at New Orleans ($1,318), Berea College ($1,386), and The College of Westchester ($1,402), and others, ending with West Coast Univ-Ontario ($25,669).

609 out of the other 3,121 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for average undergrad student loan, e.g., Dine College.

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).
   

Salish Kootenai College is in Pablo, MT, is private and nonprofit, tribal, open admission, degree-granting, a land-grant institution, more than 50% Black, Hispanic, Asian, American Indian, or Alaska Native, has a nursing major, has its top Associates major in nursing, has its top major in education, offers on-campus housing, is on the quarter system, and enrolls fewer than 1,000 students.

• average full-time teaching salary ($45,944)
• endowment per full-time student ($11,789)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($11,463)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($6,279)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($2,867)
• cost of a shared room ($2,250)
• average undergrad student loan ($1,270)
• research spending ($0.0K)
• research spending per student ($0.0)
• undergrads who get financial aid (90%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (82.6%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (80%)
• minorities (75.8%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (73.5%)
• in-state freshmen (66.7%)
• full-time retention rate (33%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (32%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (5.5%)
• Hispanics (1.6%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, 1.1%)
• Blacks or African Americans (0.7%)
• foreign students (0%)
• Asians (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, -1.1%)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• average January temperature (27.7 degrees)
• dorm capacity (125)
• 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 (1,458)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (5.26)
• students per faculty member (12)
• annual rainfall (15.7 inches)
• elevation (939 meters)

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