outdid Bellevue Univ, Grace Univ, Creighton Univ, and National American Univ-Bellevue, and 24 others, ending with Chadron State College.

1. College geographic information is from the IPEDS Directory, 2012-13 (Provisional release) by the National Center for Education Statistics (http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds).
   

Peru State College is in Peru, NE, is public, is in the Heart of America Athletic Conference, open admission, degree-granting, has its top Masters major in education, has its top major in business, offers on-campus housing, is on the semester system, and enrolls from 1,000 to 4,999 students.

• average full-time teaching salary ($59,913)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($5,656)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($5,656)
• average undergrad student loan ($5,228)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($4,618)
• endowment per full-time student ($4,110)
• cost of a shared room ($3,162)
• research spending per student ($8)
• research spending ($0.0K)
• undergrads who get financial aid (97%)
• undergrads among full-time students (89.2%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (72%)
• in-state freshmen (68.8%)
• full-time retention rate (63%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (51%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (29.8%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 22%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (21.5%)
• grad students who are under 25 years old (12%)
• minorities (8.1%)
• Blacks or African Americans (3.7%)
• Hispanics (2.5%)
• Asians (1%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.9%)
• foreign students (0.2%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -18%)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (2)
• average January temperature (25.5 degrees)
• dorm capacity (535)
• foreign students (6)
• full-time grad students (50)
• full-time undergrads (1,163)
• grad students (259)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• undergrads (2,131)
• yearly for-credit students (3,229)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (1.03)
• students per faculty member (23)
• annual rainfall (31.7 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.08)
• elevation (316 meters)

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