bested Westminster College ($28,210), Neumont Univ ($23,100), U of Utah ($22,642), and Stevens-Henager College-Murray ($20,000).

Incidentally, none of the 5 is religiously affiliated.

surpassed Idaho State Univ ($17,870), The Art Inst. of Salt Lake City ($17,688), Boise State Univ ($17,324), and Southern Utah Univ ($16,984), and others, ending with Brigham Young-Idaho ($3,770).

3 out of the other 40 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees, e.g., Careers Unlimited.

1. Tuition and fees are 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.
   

ITT Technical Institute-Murray is in Murray, UT, 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.

• PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (782nd place)
• average full-time teaching salary ($61,400)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($18,048)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($18,048)
• average undergrad student loan ($8,852)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($4,124)
• endowment per full-time student ($0)
• in-state freshmen (100%)
• undergrads who get financial aid (91%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (81%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (78%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (77.4%)
• minorities (14.6%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (11.4%)
• Hispanics (9.7%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 6%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (5.2%)
• Blacks or African Americans (2.4%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (1.3%)
• Asians (1.2%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• foreign students (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -5.7%)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• average January temperature (32.4 degrees)
• first-year applicants (162)
• foreign students (0)
• full-time undergrads (402)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• undergrads (575)
• yearly for-credit students (1,112)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (0)
• students per faculty member (20)
• annual rainfall (18.6 inches)
• elevation (1,305 meters)

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