outdid Stevenson Univ ($10,257), Sojourner-Douglass College ($9,405), U of Phoenix-Harrisburg Campus ($8,978), and Loyola of Maryland ($8,899), and others, ending with Gettysburg College ($4,876).

11 out of the other 48 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for average undergrad student loan, e.g., Ner Israel Rabbinical 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).
   
2. Distance calculations between two colleges use a mathematical formula for the distance on a sphere between two points.
   

York College Pennsylvania is in York, PA, is private and nonprofit, grants doctorates, has a nursing major, has its top major in nursing, offers on-campus housing, requires test scores for undergrad admissions, is on the semester system, its top Masters major is business administration and management, its top Associates major is respiratory care therapy/therapist, and enrolls from 5,000 to 9,999 students.

• PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (503rd place)
• average full-time teaching salary ($75,940)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($16,520)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($16,520)
• endowment per full-time student ($11,919)
• average undergrad student loan ($10,947)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($5,636)
• cost of a shared room ($5,220)
• research spending ($0.0K)
• research spending per student ($0.0)
• undergrads who get financial aid (99%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (77%)
• full-time retention rate (73%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (48.7%)
• in-state freshmen (46.2%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (28%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 16.1%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (14.2%)
• minorities (10%)
• disabled students (5%)
• Blacks or African Americans (4.4%)
• Hispanics (4%)
• Asians (1.4%)
• foreign students (0.3%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.2%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -13.8%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (500)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (490)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (600)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (570)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• average January temperature (31.1 degrees)
• dorm capacity (2,575)
• first-year applicants (9,283)
• foreign students (18)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• yearly for-credit students (6,116)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (1.14)
• students per faculty member (16)
• annual rainfall (42.9 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.02)
• elevation (115 meters)

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