bested U of Wisconsin-Stevens Point ($3,176), Herzing Univ-Brookfield ($3,333), and U of Wisconsin-Platteville ($3,380).

Incidentally, none of the 4 is open admission.

trailed ITT Technical Institute-Greenfield ($3,863), U of Wisconsin-Whitewater ($3,901), Herzing Univ-Kenosha ($3,906), and U of Wisconsin-Oshkosh ($3,910), and others, ending with Lake Forest College ($24,458).

18 out of the other 72 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.
   

Herzing Univ-Madison is in Madison, WI, is private and for-profit, degree-granting, has a nursing major, has its top major in business, is on the semester system, its top Masters major is business administration and management, its top Associates major is medical insurance coding specialist/coder, and enrolls from 1,000 to 4,999 students.

• average full-time teaching salary ($55,928)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($11,150)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($11,150)
• average undergrad student loan ($6,366)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($3,641)
• endowment per full-time student ($0)
• undergrads who get financial aid (99%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (80%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (69.3%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (59%)
• full-time retention rate (35%)
• in-state freshmen (30.6%)
• minorities (22.9%)
• Blacks or African Americans (18.1%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, 5%)
• Hispanics (3.1%)
• Asians (1.2%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.5%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• foreign students (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, -4.7%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (-26.9%)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• average January temperature (18.8 degrees)
• first-year applicants (409)
• foreign students (2)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• yearly for-credit students (5,413)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (0)
• students per faculty member (14)
• annual rainfall (34.5 inches)
• elevation (287 meters)

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