trailed ITT Technical Institute-Germantown (46), Christian Life College (54), Montessori Inst. of Milwaukee (64), and U of Phoenix-Des Moines Campus (66), and others, ending with Ashford Univ (169,843).

2 out of the other 418 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for yearly for-credit students, e.g., Chamberlain College of Nursing-Indiana.

1. The number of yearly for-credit students is from the 12-month Unduplicated Head Count Data File, 2011-12 (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.
   

Herzing Univ is in Madison, WI, is private and for-profit, degree-granting, has a nursing major, is on the semester system, and enrolls fewer than 1,000 students.

• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($11,150)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($11,150)
• endowment per full-time student ($0)
• in-state freshmen (90%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (12.5%)
• minorities (11.1%)
• foreign students (3.7%)
• Hispanics (3.7%)
• Asians (3.7%)
• Blacks or African Americans (3.7%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0%)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• average January temperature (18.8 degrees)
• first-year applicants (26)
• foreign students (1)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• yearly for-credit students (27)
• students per faculty member (8)
• annual rainfall (36.1 inches)
• elevation (326 meters)

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