surpassed The Illinois Inst. of Art-Schaumburg ($10,704), The Art Inst. of Washington ($10,638), U of Washington-Tacoma Campus ($9,969), and The Art Inst. of Raleigh-Durham ($9,945), and others, ending with Haskell Indian Nations Univ ($112).

429 out of the other 812 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for cost of a shared room, e.g., UC Berkeley.

1. Whether a college is rural, suburban, or in a town, city, or big city, is from the IPEDS Directory, 2012-13 (Provisional release) by the National Center for Education Statistics (http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds).
   
2. The costs of room and board are from the Institutional Characteristics Data File 2012-2013 (Provisional Release) as reported by the National Center for Education Statistics (http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds).
   

The Art Inst. of California-Argosy Univ Inland Empire is in San Bernardino, CA, is private and for-profit, degree-granting, more than 50% Black, Hispanic, Asian, American Indian, or Alaska Native, has a culinary program, offers on-campus housing, its top major is graphic design, is on the quarter system, its top Associates major is culinary arts/chef training, and enrolls from 1,000 to 4,999 students.

• average full-time teaching salary ($54,511)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($18,948)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($18,948)
• cost of a shared room ($12,387)
• average undergrad student loan ($7,823)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($5,541)
• endowment per full-time student ($0)
• in-state freshmen (99.6%)
• undergrads who get financial aid (99%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (95%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (77%)
• full-time retention rate (64%)
• minorities (63.1%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (50%)
• Hispanics (47.6%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (30.1%)
• Blacks or African Americans (11.3%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 4.3%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (4.1%)
• Asians (3.6%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.6%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• foreign students (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -4.1%)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• average January temperature (55.3 degrees)
• dorm capacity (155)
• first-year applicants (521)
• foreign students (0)
• full-time undergrads (1,190)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• undergrads (2,315)
• yearly for-credit students (3,291)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (0)
• students per faculty member (23)
• annual rainfall (16.0 inches)
• elevation (315 meters)

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