trailed ITT Technical Institute-Phoenix West ($2,347), Bryan Univ ($2,697), Argosy Univ-San Diego ($2,775), and American Indian College of the Assemblies of God Inc ($3,058), and others, ending with Stanford ($38,522).

88 out of the other 324 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for average grant aid to undergrads, e.g., United States Univ.

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.
   

Argosy Univ-Orange County is in Orange, CA, is private and for-profit, open admission, research intensive, more than 50% Black, Hispanic, Asian, American Indian, or Alaska Native, has its top Doctoral major in education, its top major is psychology, is on the semester system, its top Masters major is clinical, counseling and applied psychology, other, and enrolls fewer than 1,000 students.

• average full-time teaching salary ($54,849)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($12,685)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($12,685)
• average undergrad student loan ($10,500)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($1,400)
• endowment per full-time student ($0)
• undergrads who get financial aid (100%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (100%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (100%)
• in-state freshmen (100%)
• full-time retention rate (70%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (62.2%)
• minorities (54.6%)
• undergrads among full-time students (32.1%)
• Hispanics (27.8%)
• Blacks or African Americans (13.2%)
• Asians (12.6%)
• grad students who are under 25 years old (10.9%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 9.6%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (1%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (0.6%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• foreign students (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -8.7%)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• average January temperature (58.4 degrees)
• foreign students (0)
• full-time grad students (148)
• full-time undergrads (134)
• grad students (504)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• undergrads (238)
• yearly for-credit students (1,153)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (0)
• students per faculty member (8)
• annual rainfall (13.6 inches)
• elevation (35 meters)

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