closest are Memphis College of Art (725, 346), Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering (781, 355), Florida Christian College (526, 374), and The New England Conservatory of Music (1,260, 436), ending with Arizona State (29,722, 59,382).

1,329 colleges were ruled out due to 101 missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for first-year applicants alone, 497 for undergrads alone, and 731 for both together.

1. The number of total first-year applicants 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).
   
2. Information on numbers and ages of the undergrad and graduate student body is from the file enrollment by age, gender, attendance status, and level of student: Fall 2012 (Provisional release) as reported by the National Center for Education Statistics (http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds).
   

Cottey College is in Nevada, MO, is private and nonprofit, degree-granting, offers on-campus housing, requires test scores for undergrad admissions, is on the semester system, its top Associates major is liberal arts and sciences/liberal studies, and enrolls fewer than 1,000 students.

• endowment per full-time student ($248,449)
• average full-time teaching salary ($60,828)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($17,400)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($17,400)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($10,064)
• cost of typical room and board ($6,400)
• average undergrad student loan ($4,940)
• research spending ($0.0K)
• research spending per student ($0.0)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (100%)
• undergrads who get financial aid (99%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (70%)
• full-time retention rate (68%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (45%)
• in-state freshmen (22%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (20%)
• minorities (18.7%)
• foreign students (12.9%)
• disabled students (10%)
• Hispanics (9.8%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 7.3%)
• Blacks or African Americans (4.9%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (3.1%)
• Asians (3.1%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.9%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -6.8%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (460)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (460)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (560)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (570)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• average January temperature (32.4 degrees)
• dorm capacity (350)
• first-year applicants (425)
• foreign students (42)
• full-time undergrads (288)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• undergrads (292)
• yearly for-credit students (325)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (0)
• students per faculty member (8)
• annual rainfall (46.4 inches)
• elevation (262 meters)

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