beat Virginia College-Birmingham (-25%), International Academy of Design and Technology-Tampa (-20.9%), Herzing Univ-Atlanta (-20.1%), and Herzing Univ-Kenner (-18.8%), and others, ending with Fortis College-Largo (414.9%).

70 out of the other 426 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for tuition & fees increase over three years, e.g., U of Texas Southwestern Medical Center.

1. 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).
   
2. Distance calculations between two colleges use a mathematical formula for the distance on a sphere between two points.
   

Our Lady of Holy Cross College is in New Orleans, LA, is private and nonprofit, is Roman Catholic, degree-granting, has a nursing major, has its top major in nursing, is on the semester system, its top Masters major is clinical, counseling and applied psychology, other, its top Associates major is radiologic technology/science - radiographer, and enrolls from 1,000 to 4,999 students.

• average full-time teaching salary ($45,999)
• endowment per full-time student ($30,010)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($9,710)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($9,710)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($6,691)
• average undergrad student loan ($5,482)
• research spending ($0.0K)
• research spending per student ($0.0)
• in-state freshmen (100%)
• undergrads who get financial aid (84%)
• undergrads among full-time students (81.9%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (79.7%)
• full-time retention rate (77%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (45.9%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (42%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (40%)
• minorities (34.8%)
• Blacks or African Americans (25.1%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, 10.9%)
• grad students who are under 25 years old (9%)
• Hispanics (5.3%)
• Asians (3.7%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.7%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• foreign students (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, -9.8%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (-27.6%)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• average January temperature (53.6 degrees)
• first-year applicants (108)
• foreign students (0)
• full-time grad students (55)
• full-time undergrads (583)
• grad students (212)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• undergrads (960)
• yearly for-credit students (1,409)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (0)
• students per faculty member (12)
• annual rainfall (67.3 inches)
• elevation (-1 meter)

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