bested College of Southern Nevada (246.1%), Nevada State College (228.4%), San Diego State Univ-Imperial Valley Campus (204.3%), and Cal State-Dominguez Hills (191.3%).

Incidentally, all 5 are public.

surpassed Platt College-Riverside, Academy of Couture Art, CollegeAmerica-Phoenix, and Azusa Pacific Online Univ, all with 0%.

42 out of the other 152 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for non-resident tuition & fees surcharge, e.g., Carrington College-Phoenix.

1. Whether a college offers a meal plan 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).
   
2. 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).
   
3. Distance calculations between two colleges use a mathematical formula for the distance on a sphere between two points.
   

Cal State-San Marcos is in San Marcos, CA, is public, degree-granting, has a nursing major, has its top Masters major in education, has its top major in business, offers on-campus housing, is on the semester system, and enrolls from 10,000 to 19,999 students.

• PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (716th place)
• Webometrics world ranking (1,287th place)
• research spending ($100K)
• average full-time teaching salary ($75,955)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($18,525)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($8,914)
• cost of a shared room ($8,000)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($6,867)
• average undergrad student loan ($5,244)
• endowment per full-time student ($1,896)
• research spending per student ($11)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (169.8%)
• in-state freshmen (98.7%)
• undergrads among full-time students (93.6%)
• full-time retention rate (82%)
• undergrads who get financial aid (70%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (62.3%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (42%)
• minorities (41.5%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (38%)
• Hispanics (29.1%)
• grad students who are under 25 years old (21.1%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (20.5%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (14.5%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 10.7%)
• Asians (9.3%)
• Blacks or African Americans (2.6%)
• foreign students (2%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.5%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -9.7%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (440)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (420)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (540)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (530)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• average January temperature (56.0 degrees)
• dorm capacity (954)
• first-year applicants (9,979)
• foreign students (214)
• full-time grad students (330)
• full-time undergrads (7,802)
• grad students (681)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• undergrads (9,929)
• yearly for-credit students (10,669)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (0.2)
• students per faculty member (23)
• annual rainfall (15.0 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.13)
• elevation (195 meters)

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