surpassed Kaplan Univ-Cedar Rapids Campus (28), Kaplan Univ-Council Bluffs Campus (28), Kaplan Univ-Des Moines Campus (24), and Ashford Univ (21), and others, ending with U of Phoenix-Des Moines Campus (5).

2 out of the other 48 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for students per faculty member, e.g., Des Moines Univ-Osteopathic Medical Center.

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).
   
2. The student-faculty ratios 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).
   

Kaplan Univ-Mason City Campus is in Mason City, IA, is private and for-profit, open admission, degree-granting, has its top major in business, its top Masters major is business administration and management, its top Associates major is medical/clinical assistant, and enrolls fewer than 1,000 students.

• average full-time teaching salary ($42,111)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($15,352)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($15,352)
• average undergrad student loan ($7,639)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($6,110)
• endowment per full-time student ($0)
• undergrads who get financial aid (100%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (90%)
• undergrads among full-time students (88.6%)
• in-state freshmen (82.4%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (73%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (60%)
• minorities (9.4%)
• Hispanics (6.3%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (4.9%)
• Blacks or African Americans (2.7%)
• Asians (0.4%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, 0.1%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• foreign students (0%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, -0.1%)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• foreign students (0)
• full-time grad students (3)
• full-time undergrads (135)
• grad students (31)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• undergrads (241)
• yearly for-credit students (445)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (0)
• students per faculty member (30)
• annual rainfall (35.0 inches)
• elevation (350 meters)

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