unlike Purdue, UC Santa Barbara, U of California-Davis, and U of Oklahoma, and 127 others.

1. Whether a college is rural, suburban, or in a town, city, or big city, is from the IPEDS Directory, 2012-13 (Provisional release) by the National Center for Education Statistics (http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds).
   
2. 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).
   

Louisiana College is in Pineville, LA, is private and nonprofit, is in the American Southwest Conference, is Southern Baptist, degree-granting, has a nursing major, has its top Masters major in education, has its top major in nursing, offers on-campus housing, requires test scores for undergrad admissions, is on the semester system, its top Associates major is physical therapy technician/assistant, and enrolls from 1,000 to 4,999 students.

• average full-time teaching salary ($51,785)
• endowment per full-time student ($21,285)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($13,780)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($13,780)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($9,212)
• average undergrad student loan ($6,462)
• cost of a shared room ($2,080)
• research spending ($0.0K)
• research spending per student ($0.0)
• undergrads who get financial aid (100%)
• in-state freshmen (85%)
• full-time retention rate (64%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (49%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (47%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (43.4%)
• minorities (24.9%)
• Blacks or African Americans (19.1%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 14.5%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (10%)
• Hispanics (3.4%)
• foreign students (1.7%)
• Asians (1.6%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.8%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -12.7%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (420)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (420)
• 25th percentile SAT writing score (400)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (600)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (600)
• 75th percentile SAT writing score (600)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• average January temperature (48.3 degrees)
• dorm capacity (692)
• first-year applicants (751)
• foreign students (33)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• total 75th percentile SAT score (1,800)
• yearly for-credit students (1,925)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (4.85)
• students per faculty member (16)
• annual rainfall (60.9 inches)
• elevation (33 meters)

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