bested U of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (55.4%) and Southern Univ and A&M College (41.7%).

Incidentally, all 3 are public.

surpassed Lourdes Univ (38.5%), U of Alabama at Birmingham (35.3%), Washington State Univ (29.7%), and Texas A&M-Corpus Christi (26.4%), and others, ending with Charles R Drew U of Medicine and Science (-11.9%).

25 out of the other 73 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for tuition & fees increase over three years, e.g., U of Nebraska Medical Center.

1. 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.
   
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).
   

Northwestern State U of Louisiana is in Natchitoches, LA, is public, is in the Southland Conference, degree-granting, has a nursing major, has its top Masters major in nursing, 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 general studies, and enrolls from 5,000 to 9,999 students.

• PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (915th place)
• research spending ($1.7M)
• average full-time teaching salary ($53,854)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($14,846)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($7,723)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($5,480)
• average undergrad student loan ($5,392)
• cost of a shared room ($4,896)
• endowment per full-time student ($1,410)
• research spending per student ($151)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (170.9%)
• undergrads who get financial aid (96%)
• in-state freshmen (90.4%)
• undergrads among full-time students (88%)
• full-time retention rate (68%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (60.9%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (57%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (46%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (39.5%)
• minorities (32.1%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (31.9%)
• Blacks or African Americans (27.1%)
• grad students who are under 25 years old (14.1%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 10.2%)
• Hispanics (2.9%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (1.2%)
• Asians (0.9%)
• foreign students (0.7%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -9.3%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (440)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (430)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (538)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (558)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (45)
• average January temperature (47.8 degrees)
• dorm capacity (1,478)
• first-year applicants (3,238)
• foreign students (81)
• full-time grad students (229)
• full-time undergrads (5,294)
• grad students (1,135)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• undergrads (8,312)
• yearly for-credit students (11,469)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (3.08)
• students per faculty member (22)
• annual rainfall (55.5 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.08)
• elevation (34 meters)

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