bested East-West Univ ($2,682), Herzing Univ-Brookfield ($3,333), ITT Technical Institute-Mount Prospect ($3,588), and Herzing Univ-Madison ($3,641).

Incidentally, none of the 5 offers on-campus housing.

trailed U of Wisconsin-Whitewater ($3,901), Herzing Univ-Kenosha ($3,906), U of Wisconsin-Oshkosh ($3,910), and Westwood College-Chicago Loop ($3,972), and others, ending with Northwestern ($29,961).

41 out of the other 143 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for average grant aid to undergrads, e.g., Ottawa Univ-Milwaukee.

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.
   

ITT Technical Institute-Greenfield is in Greenfield, WI, 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 design and visual communications, and enrolls fewer than 1,000 students.

• average full-time teaching salary ($50,896)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($18,048)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($18,048)
• average undergrad student loan ($8,217)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($3,863)
• endowment per full-time student ($0)
• in-state freshmen (100%)
• undergrads who get financial aid (88%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (75%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (70.5%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (64%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (36.2%)
• minorities (25.9%)
• Blacks or African Americans (13.9%)
• Hispanics (9.6%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 7.9%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (5.2%)
• Asians (2%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.4%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• foreign students (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -7.3%)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• average January temperature (19.8 degrees)
• first-year applicants (162)
• foreign students (0)
• full-time undergrads (387)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• undergrads (553)
• yearly for-credit students (1,278)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (0)
• students per faculty member (15)
• annual rainfall (36.5 inches)
• elevation (234 meters)

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