surpassed Southern Utah Univ (32.2%), Longwood Univ (30.2%), New Mexico State Univ (25.9%), and East Texas Baptist Univ (25.3%), and others, ending with Laurel Univ (-17.1%).

4 out of the other 102 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for tuition & fees increase over three years, e.g., Touro Univ Nevada.

1. Information on majors and programs of study is from the Completions Data File, 2011-12 (Provisional release) as reported by the National Center for Education Statistics (http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds). Top majors are the ones that have the most conferred degrees. If it says "is in" rather than just "is", then various top majors were combined into a new attribute. For example, colleges whose top major is "in engineering" will include a college whose top major is chemical engineering, another whose top major is electrical engineering, and so on.
   
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).
   

Augusta State Univ is in Augusta, GA, is public, degree-granting, has a nursing major, has its top Masters major in education, has its top major in education, offers on-campus housing, requires test scores for undergrad admissions, is on the semester system, 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 (592nd place)
• research spending ($100K)
• average full-time teaching salary ($55,752)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($17,526)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($5,622)
• average undergrad student loan ($5,137)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($5,036)
• cost of a shared room ($4,550)
• endowment per full-time student ($48)
• research spending per student ($10)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (211.7%)
• in-state freshmen (90.7%)
• undergrads among full-time students (89.3%)
• undergrads who get financial aid (80%)
• full-time retention rate (66%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (59.4%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (46%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (43%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (34.6%)
• minorities (33.9%)
• Blacks or African Americans (27%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (26.9%)
• grad students who are under 25 years old (17.8%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 12.3%)
• Hispanics (4.2%)
• Asians (2.3%)
• foreign students (1%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.4%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -10.9%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (440)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (440)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (540)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (540)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (1)
• average January temperature (46.8 degrees)
• dorm capacity (500)
• first-year applicants (2,369)
• foreign students (81)
• full-time grad students (330)
• full-time undergrads (4,105)
• grad students (701)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• undergrads (5,827)
• yearly for-credit students (8,227)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (0.9)
• students per faculty member (16)
• annual rainfall (46.6 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.03)
• elevation (119 meters)

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