Shimer College is first with $17,326.

Incidentally, neither offers graduate degrees.

outdid Westwood College-O'Hare Airport ($16,145), Westwood College-Dupage ($16,031), Westwood College-Chicago Loop ($14,792), and Minnesota School of Business-Blaine ($14,568), and others, ending with Bellevue Univ ($1,312).

162 out of the other 1,006 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for average undergrad student loan, e.g., Walden 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.
   

Westwood College-River Oaks is in Calumet City, IL, is private and for-profit, degree-granting, more than 50% Black, Hispanic, Asian, American Indian, or Alaska Native, has its top major in criminal justice, 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 ($42,092)
• average undergrad student loan ($16,184)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($14,517)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($14,517)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($4,198)
• endowment per full-time student ($0)
• undergrads who get financial aid (100%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (89%)
• minorities (76.8%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (75%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (73%)
• in-state freshmen (70%)
• Blacks or African Americans (65.2%)
• full-time retention rate (22%)
• Hispanics (10.9%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 4.3%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (4%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.5%)
• Asians (0.2%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• foreign students (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -4.1%)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• first-year applicants (198)
• foreign students (0)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• yearly for-credit students (950)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (0.7)
• students per faculty member (12)
• annual rainfall (36.6 inches)
• elevation (187 meters)

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