after Luther College (1.2%, 0), closest are VanderCook College of Music (2.9%, 0), Cottey College (3.1%, 0), American Academy of Art (4.6%, 0), and The Creative Center (5.5%, 0), ending with Maple Springs Baptist Bible College and Seminary (100%, 0).

447 out of the other 868 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for undergrads who are 25 years or older, e.g., Pacific States Univ.

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. Property crimes refer to annual burglary, robbery, and motor vehicle theft and are averaged over the period 2010-2012 as reported by the Office of Postsecondary Education at the Department of Education (http://www.ope.ed.gov/security). Colleges with less than 100 for-credit students are disregarded.
   

Luther College is in Decorah, IA, is private and nonprofit, is in the Iowa Intercollegiate Athletic Conf, is of the Evangelical Lutheran Church, degree-granting, accepts the Common Application, has a Phi Beta Kappa chapter, has a nursing major, offers on-campus housing, requires test scores for undergrad admissions, its top major is biology/biological sciences, is on a four-one-four calendar, and enrolls from 1,000 to 4,999 students.

• USNews Liberal Arts College ranking (94th place)
• PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (768th place)
• research spending ($300K)
• average full-time teaching salary ($66,308)
• endowment per full-time student ($42,395)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($36,100)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($36,100)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($20,405)
• average undergrad student loan ($6,613)
• cost of a shared room ($3,120)
• research spending per student ($116)
• undergrads who get financial aid (100%)
• full-time retention rate (88%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (72%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (56.5%)
• in-state freshmen (27%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (21%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (11.8%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 5.8%)
• minorities (5.7%)
• disabled students (5%)
• foreign students (5%)
• Hispanics (2.7%)
• Asians (1.5%)
• Blacks or African Americans (1.4%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (1.2%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.1%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -5.5%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (500)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (450)
• 25th percentile SAT writing score (450)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (620)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (605)
• 75th percentile SAT writing score (595)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (3)
• average January temperature (17.9 degrees)
• dorm capacity (2,145)
• first-year applicants (3,556)
• foreign students (127)
• full-time undergrads (2,421)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (8)
• total 75th percentile SAT score (1,820)
• undergrads (2,473)
• yearly for-credit students (2,528)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (0)
• students per faculty member (12)
• annual rainfall (34.7 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.18)
• elevation (279 meters)

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