beat out by Marymount College ($22,287) and Kansas City Art Inst. ($20,307).

Incidentally, all 3 offer a meal plan.

beat Concordia Univ-Saint Paul ($19,038), Briar Cliff Univ ($18,513), Hellenic College-Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology ($17,094), and Lindsey Wilson College ($16,660), 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).
   

Martin Methodist College is in Pulaski, TN, is private and nonprofit, is United Methodist, open admission, degree-granting, has a nursing major, has its top major in business, offers on-campus housing, is on the semester system, its top Associates major is general studies, and enrolls from 1,000 to 4,999 students.

• average full-time teaching salary ($49,406)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($21,368)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($21,368)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($19,055)
• endowment per full-time student ($11,892)
• cost of typical room and board ($7,200)
• average undergrad student loan ($5,047)
• research spending ($0.0K)
• research spending per student ($0.0)
• full-time retention rate (87%)
• in-state freshmen (80.4%)
• undergrads who get financial aid (71%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (71%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (65%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (14.6%)
• minorities (12.5%)
• Blacks or African Americans (10.5%)
• foreign students (6.8%)
• Hispanics (1.6%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 0.5%)
• Asians (0.4%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -0.5%)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• average January temperature (37.1 degrees)
• dorm capacity (420)
• foreign students (82)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• yearly for-credit students (1,208)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (0)
• students per faculty member (17)
• annual rainfall (56.1 inches)
• elevation (216 meters)

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