bested U of Phoenix-Dallas Campus (88.7%), Argosy Univ-Dallas (84.3%), and DeVry Univ-Texas (73.5%).

Incidentally, all 4 are private and for-profit.

surpassed ITT Technical Institute-Arlington (65.8%), ITT Technical Institute-DeSoto (61.8%), Parker Univ (54.3%), and South Univ-The Art Inst. of Fort Worth (40.5%), and others, ending with Austin College (1.4%).

23 out of the other 43 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for undergrads who are 25 years or older, e.g., Texas College.

1. Information on numbers and ages of the undergrad and graduate student body is from the file enrollment by age, gender, attendance status, and level of student: Fall 2012 (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-Richardson is in Richardson, TX, is private and for-profit, degree-granting, its top major is electrical, electronic and communications engineering technology/technician and 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 ($54,133)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($18,048)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($18,048)
• average undergrad student loan ($9,352)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($4,144)
• endowment per full-time student ($0)
• in-state freshmen (100%)
• undergrads who get financial aid (84%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (71.9%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (71%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (68%)
• minorities (34.6%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (31.8%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, 29.3%)
• Hispanics (17.9%)
• Blacks or African Americans (13.9%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (5.2%)
• Asians (2.5%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.3%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• foreign students (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, -22.7%)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• average January temperature (44.9 degrees)
• first-year applicants (365)
• foreign students (0)
• full-time undergrads (479)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• undergrads (665)
• yearly for-credit students (1,230)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (0.3)
• students per faculty member (20)
• annual rainfall (41.6 inches)
• elevation (201 meters)

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