outdone by U of Phoenix-Albuquerque Campus ($31,302) and Southwest Univ at El Paso ($33,432).

Incidentally, all 3 are more than 50% Black, Hispanic, Asian, American Indian, or Alaska Native.

outdid Brown Mackie College-Albuquerque ($37,946), U of Phoenix-Southern Colorado Campus ($41,158), College America-Colorado Springs ($41,600), and Navajo Technical College ($42,989), and others, ending with Colorado College ($90,815).

7 out of the other 47 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for average full-time teaching salary, e.g., National American Univ-Albuquerque.

1. Teaching salaries for men and women are from the Salary Outlays for Full-time Instructional Staff by Contract Length, Gender, and Academic Rank: 2011-12 (Final/revised release) 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.
   

Brookline College-Albuquerque is in Albuquerque, NM, is private and for-profit, open admission, degree-granting, more than 50% Black, Hispanic, Asian, American Indian, or Alaska Native, has a nursing major, is on a continuous calendar, its top Associates major is criminal justice/law enforcement administration, and enrolls fewer than 1,000 students.

• average full-time teaching salary ($37,128)
• average undergrad student loan ($10,810)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($5,469)
• endowment per full-time student ($0)
• in-state freshmen (100%)
• undergrads who get financial aid (97%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (93%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (91%)
• minorities (80.9%)
• Hispanics (66%)
• full-time retention rate (53%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (9.3%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, 7.8%)
• Blacks or African Americans (4.8%)
• Asians (0.8%)
• foreign students (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, -7.2%)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• average January temperature (36.8 degrees)
• 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 (971)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (0)
• students per faculty member (30)
• annual rainfall (11.1 inches)
• elevation (1,510 meters)

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