bested College of Southern Nevada (246.1%) and Snow College (231.5%).

Incidentally, all 3 are public.

surpassed U of Nevada-Las Vegas (211.2%), Southern Utah Univ (204.6%), San Diego State Univ-Imperial Valley Campus (204.3%), and Cal State-Dominguez Hills (191.3%), and others, ending with Everest College Phoenix (0%).

47 out of the other 232 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for non-resident tuition & fees surcharge, e.g., Carrington College-Phoenix.

1. 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).
   
2. Distance calculations between two colleges use a mathematical formula for the distance on a sphere between two points.
   

Nevada State College is in Henderson, NV, is public, degree-granting, has a nursing major, has its top major in nursing, is on the semester system, and enrolls from 1,000 to 4,999 students.

• average full-time teaching salary ($68,113)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($14,773)
• average undergrad student loan ($5,099)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($4,498)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($4,449)
• endowment per full-time student ($247)
• research spending ($0.0K)
• research spending per student ($0.0)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (228.4%)
• in-state freshmen (98.1%)
• undergrads who get financial aid (87%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (70.1%)
• full-time retention rate (63%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (55%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (53.9%)
• minorities (41.4%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (37%)
• Hispanics (18.4%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (18.1%)
• Blacks or African Americans (11.6%)
• Asians (10.4%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 1%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (1%)
• foreign students (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -1%)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• average January temperature (47.6 degrees)
• first-year applicants (1,348)
• foreign students (1)
• full-time undergrads (1,123)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• undergrads (3,389)
• yearly for-credit students (4,362)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (0)
• students per faculty member (19)
• annual rainfall (5.7 inches)
• elevation (697 meters)

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