after Harding Univ (560, 440), closest are College of the Ozarks (510, 440), Grace Univ (500, 430), Appalachian Bible College (500, 415), and Midway College (490, 430), ending with Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College (200, 210).

7 out of the other 457 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for 25th percentile SAT reading score, e.g., Northern State Univ.

1. College SAT data is from the Institutional Characteristics Data File 2012-2013 (Provisional Release) as reported by the National Center for Education Statistics (http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds). Note that only about 41% of all colleges in this dataset reported at least one numeric SAT score.
   

Harding Univ is in Searcy, AR, is private and nonprofit, is in the Great American Conference, is of the Churches of Christ, grants doctorates, has a nursing major, offers on-campus housing, requires test scores for undergrad admissions, its top major is general studies, is on the semester system, its top Masters major is business administration and management, its top Doctoral major is pharmacy, and enrolls from 5,000 to 9,999 students.

• PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (543rd place)
• average full-time teaching salary ($61,750)
• endowment per full-time student ($17,517)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($15,240)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($15,240)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($9,108)
• average undergrad student loan ($6,372)
• cost of a shared room ($3,094)
• research spending ($0.0K)
• research spending per student ($0.0)
• undergrads who get financial aid (98%)
• full-time retention rate (81%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (63%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (56.1%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (28%)
• in-state freshmen (25.1%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 18.5%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (12.2%)
• minorities (9.5%)
• Blacks or African Americans (5.9%)
• disabled students (5%)
• foreign students (4.4%)
• Hispanics (1.9%)
• Asians (1.1%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.6%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -15.6%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (440)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (560)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (570)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (650)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (2)
• average January temperature (38.0 degrees)
• dorm capacity (3,136)
• first-year applicants (2,477)
• foreign students (357)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• yearly for-credit students (8,056)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (3.35)
• students per faculty member (17)
• annual rainfall (50.0 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.01)
• elevation (75 meters)

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