trailed Wesley College (46%), Greensboro College (47%), Kansas Wesleyan Univ (48%), and Wiley College (51%), and others, ending with Duke (97%).

9 out of the other 90 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for full-time retention rate, e.g., Saint Paul School of Theology.

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. 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).
   

Iowa Wesleyan College is in Mount Pleasant, IA, is private and nonprofit, is United Methodist, degree-granting, has a nursing major, has its top major in business, offers on-campus housing, requires test scores for undergrad admissions, is on the semester system, and enrolls fewer than 1,000 students.

• average full-time teaching salary ($48,346)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($24,300)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($24,300)
• endowment per full-time student ($18,518)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($15,071)
• average undergrad student loan ($7,076)
• cost of a shared room ($3,140)
• research spending ($0.0K)
• research spending per student ($0.0)
• undergrads who get financial aid (100%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (79%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (54%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (47.7%)
• full-time retention rate (43%)
• in-state freshmen (36.3%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (15.7%)
• minorities (14.6%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, 8.2%)
• Blacks or African Americans (8%)
• foreign students (7.4%)
• Hispanics (6%)
• Asians (0.5%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.1%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, -7.6%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (452)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (422)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (555)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (540)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (1)
• average January temperature (24.6 degrees)
• dorm capacity (454)
• first-year applicants (1,263)
• foreign students (65)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• yearly for-credit students (880)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (0.4)
• students per faculty member (9)
• annual rainfall (38.4 inches)
• elevation (219 meters)

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