closest are Bowling Green State Univ (16,108, 70%), Northern Illinois Univ (23,720, 70%), U of Tampa (14,730, 74%), and Cal State-Northridge (25,822, 75%), ending with Yale (27,283, 99%).

1,000 colleges were ruled out due to 397 missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for first-year applicants alone and 603 for both it and full-time retention rate together.

1. The number of total first-year applicants 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).
   
2. 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).
   

U of Hartford is in West Hartford, CT, is private and nonprofit, grants doctorates, has a nursing major, offers on-campus housing, accepts the Common Application, requires test scores for undergrad admissions, its top major is speech communication and rhetoric, is on the semester system, its top Masters major is business administration and management, its top Doctoral major is physical therapy/therapist, its top Associates major is liberal arts and sciences/liberal studies, and enrolls from 5,000 to 9,999 students.

• PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (147th place)
• research spending ($5.8M)
• average full-time teaching salary ($72,170)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($32,172)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($32,172)
• endowment per full-time student ($18,137)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($16,451)
• average undergrad student loan ($9,427)
• cost of a shared room ($7,328)
• research spending per student ($708)
• undergrads who get financial aid (99%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (79%)
• undergrads among full-time students (76.6%)
• full-time retention rate (65%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (50.4%)
• in-state freshmen (35.2%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (32%)
• grad students who are under 25 years old (22.1%)
• minorities (20.9%)
• Blacks or African Americans (11.7%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (11.4%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 11.2%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (11%)
• disabled students (10%)
• Hispanics (6.1%)
• foreign students (5.3%)
• Asians (2.9%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.2%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -10.1%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (480)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (470)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (620)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (610)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• average January temperature (27.1 degrees)
• dorm capacity (3,529)
• first-year applicants (14,683)
• foreign students (434)
• full-time grad students (690)
• full-time undergrads (4,503)
• grad students (1,610)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• undergrads (5,284)
• yearly for-credit students (8,176)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (2.04)
• students per faculty member (12)
• annual rainfall (43.6 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.05)
• elevation (20 meters)

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