tied with Maria College of Albany, Mercy College of Ohio, Bellin College, and Chamberlain College of Nursing-Florida, all with 100%.

Incidentally, none of the 5 offers on-campus housing.

beat Bryan College of Health Sciences (97%), Johns Hopkins (97%), U of Rochester (96%), and West Coast Univ-Orange County (95%), and others, ending with Platt College-Aurora (0%).

47 out of the other 311 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for full-time retention rate, e.g., Lancaster General College of Nursing & Health Sciences.

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. 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.
   

Trinity College of Nursing & Health Sciences is in Rock Island, IL, is private and nonprofit, degree-granting, has a nursing major, has an emergency medical technology program, has its top Associates major in nursing, has its top major in nursing, is on the semester system, and enrolls fewer than 1,000 students.

• average full-time teaching salary ($61,997)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($24,788)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($24,788)
• endowment per full-time student ($12,526)
• research spending ($0.0K)
• research spending per student ($0.0)
• full-time retention rate (100%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (23.9%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, 18.2%)
• minorities (13.4%)
• Hispanics (6%)
• Blacks or African Americans (4.6%)
• Asians (2.8%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• foreign students (0%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0%)
• undergrads who get financial aid (0%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (0%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, -15.4%)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• average January temperature (24.1 degrees)
• first-year applicants (4)
• foreign students (0)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• yearly for-credit students (284)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (0)
• students per faculty member (10)
• annual rainfall (37.1 inches)
• elevation (209 meters)

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