beat out by Colorado College ($28,888), U of Denver ($20,331), Regis Univ ($19,363), and The College of Idaho ($15,660).

Incidentally, all 5 are private and nonprofit.

beat Northwest Nazarene Univ ($14,809), Rocky Mountain College ($14,376), Carroll College ($14,241), and Naropa Univ ($12,700), and others, ending with Montana Bible College ($250).

16 out of the other 117 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for average grant aid to undergrads, e.g., CollegeAmerica Denver.

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. The regions of the country are divided into New England, Mid Atlantic, Southeast, Southwest, Far West, Rocky Mountains, Great Lakes, Plains, and Outlying Areas.
   

Westminster College is in Salt Lake City, UT, is private and nonprofit, degree-granting, accepts the Common Application, has a nursing major, has its top major in nursing, offers on-campus housing, requires test scores for undergrad admissions, is on a four-one-four calendar, its top Masters major is business administration and management, and enrolls from 1,000 to 4,999 students.

• PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (545th place)
• average full-time teaching salary ($72,500)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($28,210)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($28,210)
• endowment per full-time student ($19,969)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($15,126)
• average undergrad student loan ($7,541)
• cost of a shared room ($4,546)
• research spending ($0.0K)
• research spending per student ($0.0)
• undergrads who get financial aid (97%)
• full-time retention rate (78%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (53%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (52.9%)
• in-state freshmen (47.7%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (26%)
• minorities (13.2%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (12.9%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 11.6%)
• Hispanics (7.2%)
• disabled students (7%)
• foreign students (4.6%)
• Asians (4.3%)
• Blacks or African Americans (1%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.7%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -10.4%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (500)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (500)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (620)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (613)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (1)
• average January temperature (30.3 degrees)
• dorm capacity (813)
• first-year applicants (3,764)
• foreign students (186)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• yearly for-credit students (4,041)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (1.9)
• students per faculty member (10)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.09)
• elevation (1,329 meters)

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