beat Mid-Continent Univ (-2.6%), ITT Technical Institute-Louisville (5.2%), ITT Technical Institute-Lexington (5.2%), and Kentucky State Univ (7.2%), and others, ending with Berea College (2,398%).

5 out of the other 54 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for tuition & fees increase over three years, e.g., Lexington Theological Seminary.

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 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).
   

Eastern Kentucky Univ is in Richmond, KY, is public, is in the Ohio Valley Conference, a top-100 party school, grants doctorates, has a nursing major, has an emergency medical technology program, has its top Associates major in nursing, has its top Doctoral major in education, offers on-campus housing, requires test scores for undergrad admissions, its top major is general studies, is on the semester system, its top Masters major is homeland security, law enforcement, firefighting and related protective services, other, and enrolls from 10,000 to 19,999 students.

• PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (773rd place)
• Webometrics world ranking (1,336th place)
• research spending ($2.1M)
• average full-time teaching salary ($61,743)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($16,464)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($7,320)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($5,972)
• average undergrad student loan ($5,489)
• cost of a shared room ($3,936)
• endowment per full-time student ($3,701)
• research spending per student ($109)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (124.9%)
• undergrads who get financial aid (98%)
• undergrads among full-time students (87.3%)
• in-state freshmen (87%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (68%)
• full-time retention rate (68%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (54.5%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (48%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (25.9%)
• grad students who are under 25 years old (24.3%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 12.3%)
• minorities (9.2%)
• Blacks or African Americans (5.8%)
• disabled students (4%)
• Hispanics (1.7%)
• foreign students (1.3%)
• Asians (1.3%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.4%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (-7.2%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -10.9%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (430)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (430)
• 25th percentile SAT writing score (410)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (550)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (555)
• 75th percentile SAT writing score (520)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (31)
• dorm capacity (5,034)
• first-year applicants (9,461)
• foreign students (240)
• full-time grad students (660)
• full-time undergrads (11,259)
• grad students (2,021)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• total 75th percentile SAT score (1,625)
• undergrads (13,947)
• yearly for-credit students (19,043)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (2.29)
• students per faculty member (15)
• annual rainfall (45.1 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.16)
• elevation (304 meters)

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