trailed Strayer Univ-Delaware ($1,388), Strayer Univ-District of Columbia ($1,417), Apex School of Theology ($1,440), and Bon Secours Memorial College of Nursing ($1,520), and others, ending with Harvard ($41,555).

170 out of the other 1,080 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for average grant aid to undergrads, e.g., Sentara College of Health Sciences.

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.
   

Strayer Univ-Pennsylvania is in Trevose, PA, is private and for-profit, open admission, degree-granting, more than 50% Black, Hispanic, Asian, American Indian, or Alaska Native, has its top Associates major in business, has its top major in business, is on the quarter system, its top Masters major is business administration and management, and enrolls from 1,000 to 4,999 students.

• average full-time teaching salary ($58,849)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($14,985)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($14,985)
• average undergrad student loan ($3,808)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($1,387)
• endowment per full-time student ($0)
• in-state freshmen (93.3%)
• undergrads who get financial aid (64%)
• minorities (51.1%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (45%)
• Blacks or African Americans (44.9%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (36%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (11.9%)
• Hispanics (3.8%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, 2.9%)
• Asians (2.1%)
• foreign students (0.9%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.3%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• full-time retention rate (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, -2.8%)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• average January temperature (29.9 degrees)
• foreign students (43)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• yearly for-credit students (4,773)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (0.2)
• students per faculty member (15)
• annual rainfall (49.3 inches)
• elevation (44 meters)

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