beat out by Davis College (-15.2%) and Beis Medrash Heichal Dovid (-11.2%).

Incidentally, none of the 3 is an NCAA member.

beat Globe Inst. of Technology (-0.1%), Bais Medrash Elyon (0%), Talmudical Inst. of Upstate New York (0%), and Plaza College (0%), and others, ending with Morrisville State College (70%).

44 out of the other 231 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for tuition & fees increase over three years, e.g., Rockefeller Univ.

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).
   
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).
   

Briarcliffe College is in Bethpage, NY, is private and for-profit, open admission, degree-granting, has its top major in business, is on the semester system, its top Associates major is criminal justice/safety studies, and enrolls from 1,000 to 4,999 students.

• average full-time teaching salary ($57,102)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($16,347)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($16,347)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($7,730)
• average undergrad student loan ($7,290)
• endowment per full-time student ($0)
• in-state freshmen (98.2%)
• undergrads who get financial aid (98%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (93%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (74%)
• full-time retention rate (51%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (46.6%)
• minorities (35.4%)
• Blacks or African Americans (18.5%)
• Hispanics (15.4%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 8.5%)
• disabled students (6%)
• Asians (1.2%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.3%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• foreign students (0%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (-6%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -7.8%)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• average January temperature (30.5 degrees)
• foreign students (0)
• full-time undergrads (1,598)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• undergrads (2,021)
• yearly for-credit students (3,078)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (0)
• students per faculty member (18)
• annual rainfall (43.8 inches)
• elevation (40 meters)

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