bested U of Phoenix-Des Moines Campus ($3,901) and Hamilton Technical College ($4,421).

Incidentally, all 3 are private and for-profit.

trailed U of Northern Iowa ($4,746), Allen College ($4,825), Brown Mackie College-Quad Cities ($4,931), and ITT Technical Institute-Cedar Rapids ($5,377), and others, ending with Grinnell College ($29,728).

2 out of the other 48 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for average grant aid to undergrads, e.g., Des Moines Univ-Osteopathic Medical Center.

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. College geographic information is from the IPEDS Directory, 2012-13 (Provisional release) by the National Center for Education Statistics (http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds).
   

ITT Technical Institute-Clive is in Clive, IA, is private and for-profit, degree-granting, is on the quarter system, its top Associates major is computer systems networking and telecommunications, and enrolls fewer than 1,000 students.

• average full-time teaching salary ($46,674)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($18,048)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($18,048)
• average undergrad student loan ($7,639)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($4,442)
• endowment per full-time student ($0)
• in-state freshmen (100%)
• undergrads who get financial aid (90%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (87%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (81%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (72.9%)
• minorities (11.5%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 11%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (5.2%)
• Hispanics (4.9%)
• Blacks or African Americans (4%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (1.3%)
• Asians (1.3%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (0%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• foreign students (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -9.9%)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• average January temperature (21.2 degrees)
• first-year applicants (84)
• foreign students (0)
• full-time undergrads (134)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• undergrads (210)
• yearly for-credit students (447)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (0.8)
• students per faculty member (9)
• annual rainfall (35.6 inches)
• elevation (262 meters)

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