bested Ohio Mid-Western College (12.35), Rockford Univ (9.23), Bethany College (8.13), and Lees-McRae College (6.13).

Incidentally, all 5 are private and nonprofit.

surpassed Covenant College (5.54), Sinte Gleska Univ (5.27), Salish Kootenai College (5.26), and Turtle Mountain Community College (4.51), and others, ending with Kendall College (0).

3 out of the other 117 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students, e.g., Family of Faith College.

1. 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.
   
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.
   

Sterling College is in Sterling, KS, is private and nonprofit, is in the Kansas Collegiate Athletic Conf, degree-granting, offers on-campus housing, has its top major in education, requires test scores for undergrad admissions, is on a four-one-four calendar, and enrolls fewer than 1,000 students.

• average full-time teaching salary ($43,257)
• endowment per full-time student ($21,922)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($21,200)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($21,200)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($12,681)
• average undergrad student loan ($6,294)
• cost of a shared room ($2,836)
• research spending ($0.0K)
• research spending per student ($0.0)
• undergrads who get financial aid (100%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (79%)
• full-time retention rate (55%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (51%)
• in-state freshmen (50.4%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (48.9%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (17.8%)
• minorities (16.6%)
• Blacks or African Americans (8.9%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 7.9%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (7.5%)
• Hispanics (6%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (1.7%)
• foreign students (0.4%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• Asians (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -7.3%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (410)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (420)
• 25th percentile SAT writing score (430)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (520)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (530)
• 75th percentile SAT writing score (490)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (1)
• average January temperature (30.7 degrees)
• dorm capacity (624)
• first-year applicants (1,067)
• foreign students (3)
• full-time undergrads (578)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• total 75th percentile SAT score (1,540)
• undergrads (653)
• yearly for-credit students (721)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (5.55)
• students per faculty member (12)
• annual rainfall (29.3 inches)
• elevation (503 meters)

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