outdid Colorado School of Traditional Chinese Medicine ($38,182), U of Phoenix-Southern Colorado Campus ($41,158), College America-Colorado Springs ($41,600), and Westwood College-Denver South ($43,180), and others, ending with Colorado College ($90,815).

11 out of the other 55 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for average full-time teaching salary, e.g., Montessori Education Center of the Rockies.

1. Teaching salaries for men and women are from the Salary Outlays for Full-time Instructional Staff by Contract Length, Gender, and Academic Rank: 2011-12 (Final/revised release) by the National Center for Education Statistics (http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds).
   
2. College geographic information is from the IPEDS Directory, 2012-13 (Provisional release) by the National Center for Education Statistics (http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds).
   

College America-Fort Collins is in Fort Collins, CO, is private and for-profit, open admission, degree-granting, its top major is health/health care administration/management, its top Associates major is medical/clinical assistant, and enrolls fewer than 1,000 students.

• average full-time teaching salary ($38,026)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($16,796)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($16,796)
• average undergrad student loan ($8,835)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($3,932)
• endowment per full-time student ($0)
• in-state freshmen (100%)
• undergrads who get financial aid (86%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (78%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (74%)
• full-time retention rate (68%)
• minorities (26.4%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (26.1%)
• Hispanics (21.4%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 5%)
• Blacks or African Americans (2.7%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (1.8%)
• Asians (0.5%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• foreign students (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -4.8%)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• average January temperature (31.1 degrees)
• 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 (440)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (0.8)
• students per faculty member (24)
• annual rainfall (16.1 inches)
• elevation (1,529 meters)

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