Covenant College is first.

Incidentally, both are private and nonprofit.

outdid Berry College, U of West Georgia, LaGrange College, and Dalton State College, and 84 others, ending with Savannah State Univ.

1. College geographic information is from the IPEDS Directory, 2012-13 (Provisional release) by the National Center for Education Statistics (http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds).
   

Shorter Univ is in Rome, GA, is private and nonprofit, is Baptist, degree-granting, has a nursing major, has its top major in business, offers on-campus housing, requires test scores for undergrad admissions, is on the semester system, its top Associates major is general studies, and enrolls from 1,000 to 4,999 students.

• average full-time teaching salary ($49,761)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($18,770)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($18,770)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($12,927)
• endowment per full-time student ($7,142)
• average undergrad student loan ($6,018)
• cost of a shared room ($4,800)
• research spending ($0.0K)
• research spending per student ($0.0)
• undergrads who get financial aid (99%)
• in-state freshmen (79.4%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (68%)
• full-time retention rate (54%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (52.7%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (46%)
• minorities (22.8%)
• Blacks or African Americans (18.4%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (15.2%)
• Hispanics (3.8%)
• foreign students (2.6%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, 0.6%)
• Asians (0.4%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.2%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, -0.6%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (430)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (430)
• 25th percentile SAT writing score (430)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (558)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (550)
• 75th percentile SAT writing score (550)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• average January temperature (41.6 degrees)
• dorm capacity (668)
• first-year applicants (1,667)
• foreign students (54)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• total 75th percentile SAT score (1,658)
• yearly for-credit students (2,084)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (1.44)
• students per faculty member (13)
• annual rainfall (54.1 inches)
• elevation (183 meters)

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