bested United States Univ (197) and Design Inst. of San Diego (204).

Incidentally, all 3 are private and for-profit.

trailed Argosy Univ-Orange County (238), Argosy Univ-Inland Empire (370), Platt College-San Diego (413), and Southern California U of Health Sciences (424), and others, ending with Cal State-Fullerton (32,379).

52 out of the other 96 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for undergrads, e.g., Bristol Univ.

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.
   

Argosy Univ-San Diego is in San Diego, CA, is private and for-profit, open admission, more than 50% Black, Hispanic, Asian, American Indian, or Alaska Native, grants doctorates, is on the semester system, and enrolls fewer than 1,000 students.

• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($12,685)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($12,685)
• average undergrad student loan ($9,500)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($2,775)
• endowment per full-time student ($0)
• in-state freshmen (92.1%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (73.5%)
• undergrads who get financial aid (67%)
• minorities (51.4%)
• full-time retention rate (50%)
• undergrads among full-time students (49.2%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (33%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (33%)
• Hispanics (27.1%)
• Blacks or African Americans (18.4%)
• grad students who are under 25 years old (7.2%)
• Asians (5.3%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (0.6%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.6%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• foreign students (0%)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• average January temperature (55.1 degrees)
• foreign students (0)
• full-time grad students (54)
• full-time undergrads (105)
• grad students (222)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• undergrads (215)
• yearly for-credit students (643)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (1.04)
• students per faculty member (24)
• annual rainfall (12.5 inches)
• elevation (89 meters)

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