outdone by Kansas City Art Inst. ($8,925), U of Phoenix-Kansas City Campus ($8,787), Colorado Technical Univ-Kansas City ($8,700), and National American Univ-Lee's Summit ($8,652).

Incidentally, all 5 enroll fewer than 1,000 students.

outdid DeVry Univ-Missouri ($7,805), Grantham Univ ($7,623), American College of Technology ($7,359), and The Art Institutes International-Kansas City ($7,341), and others, ending with Cleveland Chiropractic College ($3,732).

14 out of the other 48 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for average undergrad student loan, e.g., Central Baptist Theological Seminary.

1. The data on undergrad loans, financial aid, and Pell grants are from the Student Financial Aid Data File, 2011-12 (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-Kansas City is in Kansas City, MO, 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.

• PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (709th place)
• average full-time teaching salary ($49,800)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($18,048)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($18,048)
• average undergrad student loan ($8,118)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($3,880)
• endowment per full-time student ($0)
• in-state freshmen (100%)
• undergrads who get financial aid (84%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (76%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (73%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (70.3%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (30.2%)
• minorities (20.8%)
• Blacks or African Americans (15.2%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (5.2%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, 4%)
• Hispanics (3.9%)
• Asians (1%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.7%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• foreign students (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, -3.8%)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• average January temperature (28.9 degrees)
• first-year applicants (191)
• foreign students (0)
• full-time undergrads (348)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• undergrads (462)
• yearly for-credit students (1,007)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (0.7)
• students per faculty member (14)
• annual rainfall (43.7 inches)
• elevation (275 meters)

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