bested St Vincent's College (46.4%), Lourdes Univ (38.5%), Thomas More College of Liberal Arts (32.4%), and Bon Secours Memorial College of Nursing (31%).

Incidentally, none of the 5 is an NCAA member.

surpassed Providence College (27.4%), Saint Edward's Univ (27.3%), Laboure College (27.3%), and Saint Charles Borromeo Seminary-Overbrook (26.1%), and others, ending with Our Lady of Holy Cross College (-27.6%).

28 out of the other 234 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for tuition & fees increase over three years, e.g., Resurrection Univ.

1. The college's religious affiliation (if any) is from the Institutional Characteristics Data File 2012-2013 (Provisional Release) as reported by the National Center for Education Statistics (http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds).
   
2. The tuition & fees increase over the last three years refers to the 2009-10 and 2012-13 periods from the Institutional Characteristics Data File 2012-2013 (Provisional Release) as reported by the National Center for Education Statistics (http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds).
   

Holy Cross College is in Notre Dame, IN, is private and nonprofit, is Roman Catholic, degree-granting, offers on-campus housing, has its top major in business, requires test scores for undergrad admissions, is on the semester system, its top Associates major is liberal arts and sciences/liberal studies, and enrolls fewer than 1,000 students.

• average full-time teaching salary ($45,316)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($23,092)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($23,092)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($10,712)
• cost of typical room and board ($8,400)
• average undergrad student loan ($7,102)
• endowment per full-time student ($1,521)
• research spending ($0.0K)
• research spending per student ($0.0)
• undergrads who get financial aid (96%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (69%)
• full-time retention rate (65%)
• in-state freshmen (47.9%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (40%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (37.1%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (27.8%)
• minorities (17.9%)
• Hispanics (9.7%)
• disabled students (8%)
• Blacks or African Americans (7.4%)
• foreign students (6%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 4.1%)
• Asians (0.8%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -3.9%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (440)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (420)
• 25th percentile SAT writing score (420)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (530)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (550)
• 75th percentile SAT writing score (510)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (1)
• average January temperature (24.4 degrees)
• dorm capacity (239)
• first-year applicants (481)
• foreign students (29)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• total 75th percentile SAT score (1,590)
• yearly for-credit students (485)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (4.81)
• students per faculty member (14)
• annual rainfall (38.0 inches)
• elevation (221 meters)

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