beat out by Horizon Univ (-62.8%), Colorado Heights Univ (-56.2%), and Haskell Indian Nations Univ (-56%).

Incidentally, none of the 4 requires test scores for undergrad admissions.

beat Daniel Webster College (-47.3%), Baptist Bible College (-43.9%), West Texas A&M (-42.1%), and Stevens-Henager College-Ogden (-39.9%), and others, ending with Berea College (2,398%).

561 out of the other 3,121 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for tuition & fees increase over three years, e.g., UC San Francisco.

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).
   

Columbia College is in Columbia, MO, is private and nonprofit, is of the Christian Church - Disciples of Christ, open admission, degree-granting, offers on-campus housing, has its top major in business, is on the semester system, its top Masters major is business/commerce, its top Associates major is general studies, and enrolls from 10,000 to 19,999 students.

• PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (849th place)
• average full-time teaching salary ($62,908)
• endowment per full-time student ($6,551)
• average undergrad student loan ($6,404)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($6,061)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($6,007)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($6,007)
• cost of a shared room ($3,892)
• research spending ($0.0K)
• research spending per student ($0.0)
• undergrads among full-time students (95%)
• undergrads who get financial aid (84%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (76.8%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (69%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (68%)
• in-state freshmen (52.4%)
• full-time retention rate (46%)
• minorities (32.2%)
• Blacks or African Americans (22.7%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 13.9%)
• grad students who are under 25 years old (7.6%)
• Hispanics (6.9%)
• Asians (1.6%)
• foreign students (1.3%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (1%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -12.2%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (-53.8%)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• average January temperature (31.0 degrees)
• dorm capacity (395)
• foreign students (410)
• full-time grad students (136)
• full-time undergrads (10,223)
• grad students (890)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• undergrads (16,940)
• yearly for-credit students (31,541)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (0.1)
• students per faculty member (38)
• annual rainfall (46.3 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.01)
• elevation (225 meters)

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