bested Northwestern Health Sciences Univ (18), Crossroads College (31), Herzing Univ-Minneapolis (90), and DeVry Univ-Minnesota (105).

Incidentally, none of the 5 is open admission.

trailed The Art Institutes International-Minnesota (151), ITT Technical Institute-Brooklyn Center (152), Martin Luther College (223), and Metropolitan State Univ (280), and others, ending with U of Minnesota-Twin Cities (38,174).

37 out of the other 71 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for first-year applicants, e.g., United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities.

1. The number of total first-year applicants is 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.
   

ITT Technical Institute-Eden Prairie is in Eden Prairie, MN, is private and for-profit, degree-granting, its top major is computer and information systems security/information assurance, 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 ($54,403)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($18,048)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($18,048)
• average undergrad student loan ($8,020)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($3,904)
• endowment per full-time student ($0)
• in-state freshmen (100%)
• undergrads who get financial aid (96%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (81%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (81%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (67.1%)
• minorities (11.2%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (5.2%)
• Blacks or African Americans (4.2%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (3.6%)
• Asians (3.6%)
• Hispanics (3%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.4%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• foreign students (0%)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• average January temperature (15.4 degrees)
• first-year applicants (150)
• foreign students (0)
• full-time undergrads (257)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• undergrads (346)
• yearly for-credit students (778)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (0)
• students per faculty member (13)
• annual rainfall (30.8 inches)
• elevation (268 meters)

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