after Dowling College (65%, $93,592), closest are Long Island Univ-C W Post Campus (68%, $97,452), New Jersey City Univ (69%, $97,072), New York Inst. of Technology (70%, $101,239), and Kean Univ (72%, $95,470), ending with Widener Univ-Delaware Campus (100%, $120,734).

58 out of the other 197 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for full-time retention rate, e.g., Samuel Merritt Univ.

1. Teaching salaries for men and women are from the Salary Outlays for Full-time Instructional Staff by Contract Length, Gender, and Academic Rank: 2011-12 (Final/revised release) by the National Center for Education Statistics (http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds).
   
2. Student retention data are from the file total entering class, retention rates, and student-to-faculty ratio: Fall 2012 (Provisional release) as reported by the National Center for Education Statistics (http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds).
   

Dowling College is in Oakdale, NY, is private and nonprofit, accepts the Common Application, grants doctorates, has its top Doctoral major in education, has its top major in business, offers on-campus housing, is on the semester system, its top Masters major is business administration and management, and enrolls from 1,000 to 4,999 students.

• PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (174th place)
• average full-time teaching salary ($93,592)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($27,124)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($27,124)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($14,415)
• cost of a shared room ($10,770)
• average undergrad student loan ($6,826)
• endowment per full-time student ($642)
• research spending ($0.0K)
• research spending per student ($0.0)
• undergrads who get financial aid (94%)
• in-state freshmen (85.8%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (74%)
• undergrads among full-time students (68.5%)
• full-time retention rate (65%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (51%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (45%)
• grad students who are under 25 years old (22.2%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (18.7%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (16.5%)
• minorities (14.8%)
• Blacks or African Americans (8%)
• Hispanics (6%)
• disabled students (4%)
• foreign students (4%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 2.9%)
• Asians (0.7%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.1%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -2.9%)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• average January temperature (30.6 degrees)
• dorm capacity (500)
• first-year applicants (2,495)
• foreign students (215)
• full-time grad students (396)
• full-time undergrads (1,794)
• grad students (1,166)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• undergrads (2,540)
• yearly for-credit students (5,407)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (0.9)
• students per faculty member (17)
• annual rainfall (46.2 inches)
• elevation (4 meters)

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