bested Bauder College (23%), Westwood College-Northlake (26%), American InterContinental Univ-Atlanta (38%), and Strayer Univ-Georgia (40%).

Incidentally, all 5 are private and for-profit.

trailed U of Phoenix-Columbus Georgia Campus (42%), The Art Inst. of Atlanta (42%), Herzing Univ-Atlanta (44%), and Carver Bible College (47%), and others, ending with ITT Technical Institute-Atlanta (100%).

13 out of the other 68 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for full-time retention rate, e.g., Gordon State College.

1. 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).
   
2. Distance calculations between two colleges use a mathematical formula for the distance on a sphere between two points.
   

DeVry Univ-Georgia is in Decatur, GA, is private and for-profit, degree-granting, more than 50% Black, Hispanic, Asian, American Indian, or Alaska Native, has its top major in business, is on the semester system, its top Associates major is health information/medical records technology/technician, and enrolls from 1,000 to 4,999 students.

• PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (738th place)
• average full-time teaching salary ($70,482)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($16,156)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($16,156)
• average undergrad student loan ($7,955)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($5,015)
• endowment per full-time student ($0)
• undergrads who get financial aid (99%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (93%)
• in-state freshmen (90.5%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (88%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (78.1%)
• minorities (65%)
• Blacks or African Americans (58.7%)
• full-time retention rate (41%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (40.3%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 13.2%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (9.1%)
• Hispanics (3.9%)
• Asians (2.1%)
• foreign students (0.5%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.3%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -11.6%)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• average January temperature (42.2 degrees)
• first-year applicants (720)
• foreign students (29)
• full-time undergrads (1,192)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• undergrads (3,397)
• yearly for-credit students (5,887)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (0.1)
• students per faculty member (20)
• annual rainfall (53.0 inches)
• elevation (313 meters)

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