beat Southern Univ and A&M College ($5,812), New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary ($6,270), Southern Univ at New Orleans ($6,591), and Louisiana State Univ Health Sciences Center-New Orleans ($7,621), and others, ending with Tulane ($45,240).

2 out of the other 36 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees, e.g., Notre Dame Seminary Graduate School of Theology.

1. Tuition and fees are 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. College geographic information is from the IPEDS Directory, 2012-13 (Provisional release) by the National Center for Education Statistics (http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds).
   

Louisiana State Univ-Shreveport is in Shreveport, LA, is public, degree-granting, requires test scores for undergrad admissions, its top major is general studies, is on the semester system, its top Masters major is business administration and management, and enrolls from 1,000 to 4,999 students.

• research spending ($1.0M)
• average full-time teaching salary ($54,195)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($6,963)
• average undergrad student loan ($5,053)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($4,943)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($4,943)
• endowment per full-time student ($4,868)
• research spending per student ($165)
• undergrads who get financial aid (94%)
• in-state freshmen (90.3%)
• full-time retention rate (66%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (59.3%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (46%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (34%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (32.4%)
• minorities (26.9%)
• Blacks or African Americans (21.1%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 15%)
• Hispanics (2.9%)
• foreign students (2.1%)
• Asians (2.1%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.8%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -13.1%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (520)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (510)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (560)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (560)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• average January temperature (45.7 degrees)
• first-year applicants (629)
• foreign students (123)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• yearly for-credit students (5,831)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (0.6)
• students per faculty member (22)
• annual rainfall (51.8 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.02)
• elevation (49 meters)

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