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What's exceptional about Augustana College (augustana) ?

1 out of 14 select attributes | select attitudes

young undergrads; cheap room & board

Augustana College has the fewest undergrads who are 25 years or older (1.2%) of the 196 colleges with a typical room-and-board cost of at most $8,784. That 1.2% compares to an average of 21.5% across the 196 colleges.



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after Augustana College (1.2%, $8,784), closest are Dordt College (2.2%, $7,230), Texas A&M-College Station (2.6%, $8,400), Cottey College (3.1%, $6,400), and Bob Jones Univ (3.1%, $5,430), ending with Ohio Christian Univ (67.7%, $6,880).

107 out of the other 195 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for undergrads who are 25 years or older, e.g., The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary.

References

  1. Information on numbers and ages of the undergrad and graduate student body is from the file enrollment by age, gender, attendance status, and level of student: Fall 2012 (Provisional release) as reported by the National Center for Education Statistics (http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds).
  2. The costs of room and board are from the Institutional Characteristics Data File 2012-2013 (Provisional Release) as reported by the National Center for Education Statistics (http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds).

Profile

Augustana College is in Rock Island, IL, is private and nonprofit, is in the College Conference of Illinois and Wisc, is of the Evangelical Lutheran Church, degree-granting, offers on-campus housing, has a Phi Beta Kappa chapter, accepts the Common Application, its top major is biology/biological sciences, is on the trimester system, and enrolls from 1,000 to 4,999 students.

  • USNews Liberal Arts College ranking (100th place)
  • PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (484th place)
  • research spending ($400K)
  • average full-time teaching salary ($65,814)
  • in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($34,614)
  • out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($34,614)
  • average grant aid to undergrads ($20,481)
  • cost of typical room and board ($8,784)
  • average undergrad student loan ($7,420)
  • research spending per student ($146)
  • endowment per full-time student ($45)
  • undergrads who get financial aid (99%)
  • full-time retention rate (84%)
  • in-state freshmen (80.8%)
  • undergrads who receive student loans (75%)
  • ratio of female full-time freshmen (55%)
  • undergrads who get Pell grants (24%)
  • tuition & fees increase over three years (10.5%)
  • minorities (9.5%)
  • average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 5.6%)
  • Hispanics (4.4%)
  • Blacks or African Americans (3.1%)
  • Asians (1.7%)
  • undergrads who are 25 years or older (1.2%)
  • foreign students (1.1%)
  • American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.3%)
  • non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
  • average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -5.3%)
  • alumni who played in the National Football League (2)
  • average January temperature (24.1 degrees)
  • dorm capacity (1,922)
  • first-year applicants (4,230)
  • foreign students (29)
  • full-time undergrads (2,532)
  • members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
  • men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
  • Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
  • undergrads (2,551)
  • yearly for-credit students (2,737)
  • on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (1.95)
  • students per faculty member (12)
  • annual rainfall (37.1 inches)
  • diversity and inclusion ratio (0.04)
  • elevation (206 meters)

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