after Illinois College (1.1%, 93%), closest are Bethany College (1.6%, 99%), Ferrum College (2.3%, 99%), VanderCook College of Music (2.9%, 95%), and Saint Vincent College (3.8%, 93%), ending with New Life Theological Seminary (95.3%, 100%).

123 out of the other 290 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for undergrads who are 25 years or older, e.g., Strayer Univ-Utah.

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 data on undergrad loans, financial aid, and Pell grants are from the Student Financial Aid Data File, 2011-12 (Provisional release) as reported by the National Center for Education Statistics (http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds).
   

Illinois College is in Jacksonville, IL, is private and nonprofit, is in the Midwest Conference, is of the Presbyterian Church - USA, 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 semester system, and enrolls fewer than 1,000 students.

• USNews Liberal Arts College ranking (156th place)
• endowment per full-time student ($128,744)
• average full-time teaching salary ($60,872)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($26,500)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($26,500)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($17,362)
• average undergrad student loan ($6,810)
• cost of a shared room ($4,600)
• research spending ($0.0K)
• research spending per student ($0.0)
• undergrads who get financial aid (100%)
• undergrads among full-time students (98.3%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (93%)
• in-state freshmen (82.8%)
• full-time retention rate (72%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (52.3%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (38%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (24.4%)
• grad students who are under 25 years old (17.6%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 12%)
• minorities (11.2%)
• Blacks or African Americans (7.7%)
• foreign students (2.9%)
• Hispanics (2.9%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (1.1%)
• Asians (0.4%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.2%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -10.7%)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• average January temperature (26.9 degrees)
• dorm capacity (890)
• first-year applicants (2,351)
• foreign students (28)
• full-time grad students (0)
• full-time undergrads (961)
• grad students (17)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• undergrads (970)
• yearly for-credit students (980)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (5.44)
• students per faculty member (11)
• annual rainfall (40.4 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.02)
• elevation (202 meters)

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