surpassed Lourdes Univ (38.5%), Thomas More College of Liberal Arts (32.4%), Bon Secours Memorial College of Nursing (31%), and Holy Cross College (27.8%), and others, ending with Our Lady of Holy Cross College (-27.6%).

28 out of the other 234 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for tuition & fees increase over three years, e.g., Resurrection Univ.

1. The college's religious affiliation (if any) 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. The tuition & fees increase over the last three years refers to the 2009-10 and 2012-13 periods from the Institutional Characteristics Data File 2012-2013 (Provisional Release) as reported by the National Center for Education Statistics (http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds).
   

St Vincent's College is in Bridgeport, CT, is private and nonprofit, is Roman Catholic, degree-granting, accepts the Common Application, has a nursing major, has its top Associates major in nursing, is on the semester system, and enrolls fewer than 1,000 students.

• average full-time teaching salary ($62,526)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($18,900)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($18,900)
• endowment per full-time student ($8,456)
• average undergrad student loan ($6,813)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($3,547)
• research spending ($0.0K)
• research spending per student ($0.0)
• undergrads who get financial aid (100%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (100%)
• in-state freshmen (100%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (66.7%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (58.3%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (50%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (46.4%)
• minorities (32.6%)
• full-time retention rate (25%)
• Blacks or African Americans (16.7%)
• Hispanics (12%)
• Asians (3.9%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, 3.2%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• foreign students (0%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, -3.1%)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• average January temperature (28.6 degrees)
• first-year applicants (49)
• foreign students (0)
• full-time undergrads (121)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• undergrads (824)
• yearly for-credit students (850)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (0.8)
• students per faculty member (21)
• annual rainfall (47.7 inches)
• elevation (28 meters)

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