bested Denver School of Nursing ($466) and American Sentinel Univ ($2,900).

Incidentally, all 3 are private and for-profit.

trailed Methodist College ($3,250), U of Wisconsin-Eau Claire ($3,442), Kettering College ($3,453), and South Univ-Columbia ($3,508), and others, ending with Johns Hopkins ($34,469).

43 out of the other 338 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for average grant aid to undergrads, e.g., Sentara College of Health Sciences.

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. Information on majors and programs of study is from the Completions Data File, 2011-12 (Provisional release) as reported by the National Center for Education Statistics (http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds). Top majors are the ones that have the most conferred degrees. If it says "is in" rather than just "is", then various top majors were combined into a new attribute. For example, colleges whose top major is "in engineering" will include a college whose top major is chemical engineering, another whose top major is electrical engineering, and so on.
   

National American Univ-Zona Rosa is in Kansas City, MO, is private and for-profit, open admission, degree-granting, has a nursing major, has its top Associates major in nursing, has its top major in nursing, is on the quarter system, and enrolls fewer than 1,000 students.

• average full-time teaching salary ($61,914)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($11,844)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($11,844)
• average undergrad student loan ($5,304)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($3,043)
• endowment per full-time student ($0)
• undergrads who get financial aid (89%)
• in-state freshmen (88%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (78%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (78%)
• full-time retention rate (29%)
• minorities (25.7%)
• Blacks or African Americans (19%)
• Hispanics (5.1%)
• Asians (0.9%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.7%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• foreign students (0%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (-2%)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• foreign students (0)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• yearly for-credit students (821)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (0.4)
• students per faculty member (12)
• annual rainfall (43.9 inches)
• elevation (303 meters)

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