bested American Baptist College (118) and Argosy Univ-Nashville (171).

Incidentally, all 3 are open admission.

trailed Welch College (316), Nossi College of Art (319), Watkins College of Art Design & Film (378), and ITT Technical Institute-Nashville (549), and others, ending with Middle Tennessee State Univ (22,371).

12 out of the other 36 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for undergrads, e.g., Huntsville Bible College.

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.
   

International Academy of Design and Technology-Nashville is in Nashville, TN, is private and for-profit, open admission, degree-granting, its top major is fashion merchandising, is on the quarter system, its top Associates major is recording arts technology/technician, and enrolls fewer than 1,000 students.

• average full-time teaching salary ($40,587)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($12,700)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($12,700)
• average undergrad student loan ($8,371)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($5,083)
• endowment per full-time student ($0)
• undergrads who get financial aid (97%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (91%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (76%)
• in-state freshmen (71.4%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (46.6%)
• minorities (43.4%)
• Blacks or African Americans (37.9%)
• full-time retention rate (20%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, 8.9%)
• Hispanics (4%)
• Asians (1.3%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.2%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• foreign students (0%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (-2.1%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, -8.1%)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• average January temperature (37.7 degrees)
• foreign students (0)
• full-time undergrads (191)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• undergrads (294)
• yearly for-credit students (819)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (0.4)
• students per faculty member (14)
• annual rainfall (47.2 inches)
• elevation (162 meters)

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