bested Bon Secours Memorial College of Nursing ($1,520) and Strayer Univ-Virginia ($1,639).

Incidentally, none of the 3 is research intensive.

trailed Westwood College-Arlington Ballston ($3,384), Averett Univ-Non-Traditional Programs ($3,625), Stratford Univ ($3,675), and ITT Technical Institute-Richmond ($3,782), and others, ending with Washington and Lee Univ ($36,055).

11 out of the other 83 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. College geographic information is from the IPEDS Directory, 2012-13 (Provisional release) by the National Center for Education Statistics (http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds).
   

Bethel College is in Hampton, VA, is private and nonprofit, is of the Assemblies of God Church, open admission, degree-granting, has its top major in a religious field, is on the semester system, its top Associates major is Bible/biblical studies, and enrolls fewer than 1,000 students.

• average undergrad student loan ($9,033)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($6,830)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($6,830)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($2,956)
• endowment per full-time student ($230)
• full-time retention rate (86%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (80.9%)
• in-state freshmen (78.8%)
• undergrads who get financial aid (64%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (64%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (57%)
• minorities (37%)
• Blacks or African Americans (28.3%)
• Hispanics (7.6%)
• Asians (1.1%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• foreign students (0%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0%)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• average January temperature (39.8 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 (92)
• students per faculty member (10)
• annual rainfall (46.7 inches)
• elevation (4 meters)

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