bested Westwood College-Houston South (0), Baptist Missionary Association Theological Seminary (14), Center for Advanced Legal Studies (35), and Chamberlain College of Nursing-Texas (39).

Incidentally, all 5 enroll fewer than 1,000 students.

trailed ITT Technical Institute-Waco (148), ITT Technical Institute-Austin (218), North American College (246), and ITT Technical Institute-Houston West (247), and others, ending with U of Texas at Austin (35,431).

26 out of the other 64 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for first-year applicants, e.g., Episcopal Theological Seminary of the Southwest.

1. The number of total first-year applicants 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. Distance calculations between two colleges use a mathematical formula for the distance on a sphere between two points.
   

ITT Technical Institute-Webster is in Webster, TX, 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.

• average full-time teaching salary ($51,229)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($18,048)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($18,048)
• average undergrad student loan ($10,611)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($4,772)
• endowment per full-time student ($0)
• in-state freshmen (100%)
• undergrads who get financial aid (87%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (74%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (74%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (70.4%)
• minorities (36.7%)
• Hispanics (24.6%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 14.4%)
• Blacks or African Americans (10.5%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (6.5%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (5.2%)
• Asians (1.1%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.5%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• foreign students (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -12.6%)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• average January temperature (52.6 degrees)
• first-year applicants (145)
• foreign students (0)
• full-time undergrads (248)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• undergrads (321)
• yearly for-credit students (789)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (0)
• students per faculty member (16)
• annual rainfall (56.8 inches)
• elevation (7 meters)

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