bested Hazelden Graduate School of Addiction Studies (1), ITT Technical Institute-Brooklyn Center (126), Academy College (152), and Brown College-Brooklyn Center (185).

Incidentally, none of the 5 offers on-campus housing.

trailed Minnesota School of Business-Lakeville (241), U of Phoenix-Minneapolis/St Paul Campus (243), Minnesota School of Business-Brooklyn Center (264), and Minnesota School of Business-Plymouth (270), and others, ending with U of Minnesota-Twin Cities (34,469).

30 out of the other 69 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for undergrads, e.g., American Academy of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine.

1. Information on numbers and ages of the undergrad and graduate student body is from the file enrollment by age, gender, attendance status, and level of student: Fall 2012 (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.
   

Minnesota School of Business-Shakopee is in Shakopee, MN, is private and for-profit, open admission, degree-granting, has its top major in business, is on the quarter system, its top Associates major is veterinary/animal health technology/technician and veterinary assistant, and enrolls fewer than 1,000 students.

• average full-time teaching salary ($39,157)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($15,300)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($15,300)
• average undergrad student loan ($9,574)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($5,473)
• endowment per full-time student ($0)
• undergrads who get financial aid (100%)
• in-state freshmen (100%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (93%)
• full-time retention rate (67%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (62%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (47%)
• minorities (9.9%)
• Hispanics (3.8%)
• Blacks or African Americans (2.7%)
• Asians (2.5%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (2.4%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, 1.5%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.9%)
• foreign students (0.4%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, -1.5%)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• average January temperature (16.3 degrees)
• foreign students (2)
• full-time undergrads (81)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• undergrads (213)
• yearly for-credit students (445)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (0)
• students per faculty member (12)
• annual rainfall (31.8 inches)
• elevation (248 meters)

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