bested Everest Univ-Brandon (0%), Polytechnic U of Puerto Rico-Orlando (0%), South Univ-Tampa (27%), and Everest Univ-South Orlando (31%).

Incidentally, none of the 5 offers on-campus housing.

trailed International Academy of Design and Technology-Online (42%), Schiller International Univ (43%), U of Phoenix-Central Florida Campus (44%), and Rasmussen College-Florida (45%), and others, ending with Herzing Univ-Winter Park (100%).

27 out of the other 67 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for full-time retention rate, e.g., Argosy Univ-Sarasota.

1. Student retention data 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.
   

ITT Technical Institute-Orlando is in Orlando, FL, 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 ($50,204)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($18,048)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($18,048)
• average undergrad student loan ($8,009)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($4,300)
• endowment per full-time student ($0)
• in-state freshmen (100%)
• undergrads who get financial aid (94%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (81%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (73%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (68.1%)
• full-time retention rate (40%)
• minorities (34.9%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (26.4%)
• Hispanics (26%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, 20.9%)
• Blacks or African Americans (8%)
• Asians (0.7%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.2%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• foreign students (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, -17.3%)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• average January temperature (60.2 degrees)
• first-year applicants (294)
• foreign students (0)
• full-time undergrads (251)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• undergrads (329)
• yearly for-credit students (538)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (0)
• students per faculty member (15)
• annual rainfall (50.7 inches)
• elevation (27 meters)

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