surpassed Vatterott College-Berkeley (40), Columbia College (38), ITT Technical Institute-Springfield (36), and ITT Technical Institute-Houston West (35), and others, ending with U of Nebraska Medical Center (3).

36 out of the other 508 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for students per faculty member, e.g., A T Still U of Health Sciences.

1. The student-faculty ratios are from the file total entering class, retention rates, and student-to-faculty ratio: 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.
   

National American Univ-Tulsa is in Tulsa, OK, is private and for-profit, open admission, degree-granting, has a grooming arts program, has a nursing major, is on the quarter system, and enrolls fewer than 1,000 students.

• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($11,844)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($11,844)
• average undergrad student loan ($7,014)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($3,741)
• endowment per full-time student ($0)
• in-state freshmen (92.5%)
• undergrads who get financial aid (88%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (88%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (75%)
• full-time retention rate (43%)
• minorities (40.5%)
• Blacks or African Americans (26%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (11.5%)
• Hispanics (2.1%)
• Asians (0.9%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• foreign students (0%)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• average January temperature (36.8 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 (339)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (0)
• students per faculty member (44)
• annual rainfall (41.4 inches)
• elevation (225 meters)

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