beat out by Westwood College-Houston South (-4.3%), Texas A&M-Galveston (-2.1%), Prairie View A&M (-1.6%), and International Academy of Design and Technology-San Antonio (-1.2%).

Incidentally, none of the 5 is religiously affiliated.

beat Texas College (2%), The Art Inst. of Houston (2.5%), The Art Inst. of Austin (3.2%), and ITT Technical Institute-Webster (5.2%), and others, ending with Lamar Univ (57.6%).

27 out of the other 78 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for tuition & fees increase over three years, e.g., Baylor College of Medicine.

1. The tuition & fees increase over the last three years refers to the 2009-10 and 2012-13 periods 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.
   

American InterContinental Univ-Houston is in Houston, TX, 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 fewer than 1,000 students.

• average full-time teaching salary ($56,973)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($14,674)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($14,674)
• average undergrad student loan ($8,477)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($5,459)
• endowment per full-time student ($0)
• in-state freshmen (95.5%)
• undergrads among full-time students (86.5%)
• undergrads who get financial aid (76%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (65%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (64%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (61.5%)
• minorities (59.5%)
• full-time retention rate (57%)
• Blacks or African Americans (40.4%)
• Hispanics (14.6%)
• grad students who are under 25 years old (7.5%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, 4.5%)
• Asians (4.1%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.4%)
• foreign students (0.1%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (-0.6%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, -4.3%)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• foreign students (1)
• full-time grad students (59)
• full-time undergrads (226)
• grad students (67)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• undergrads (429)
• yearly for-credit students (845)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (0.4)
• students per faculty member (19)
• annual rainfall (52.9 inches)
• elevation (23 meters)

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