bested Bethany College (27.47), Gallaudet Univ (18.36), Centenary College of Louisiana (15.79), and Wesleyan Univ (9.6).

Incidentally, all 5 are private and nonprofit.

surpassed Valley Forge Christian College (8.69), Emory & Henry College (7.52), Pine Manor College (6.82), and Scripps (6.77), and others, ending with Ottawa Univ-Phoenix (0).

1 out of the other 178 colleges was ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students, i.e., Argosy Univ-Phoenix Online Division.

1. Property crimes refer to annual burglary, robbery, and motor vehicle theft and are averaged over the period 2010-2012 as reported by the Office of Postsecondary Education at the Department of Education (http://www.ope.ed.gov/security). Colleges with less than 100 for-credit students are disregarded.
   
2. Information on majors and programs of study is from the Completions Data File, 2011-12 (Provisional release) as reported by the National Center for Education Statistics (http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds). Top majors are the ones that have the most conferred degrees. If it says "is in" rather than just "is", then various top majors were combined into a new attribute. For example, colleges whose top major is "in engineering" will include a college whose top major is chemical engineering, another whose top major is electrical engineering, and so on.
   

Lenoir-Rhyne Univ is in Hickory, NC, is private and nonprofit, is in the South Atlantic Conference, is of the Evangelical Lutheran Church, degree-granting, has a nursing major, has its top Masters major in education, offers on-campus housing, requires test scores for undergrad admissions, its top major is psychology, is on the semester system, and enrolls from 1,000 to 4,999 students.

• PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (685th place)
• average full-time teaching salary ($58,565)
• endowment per full-time student ($36,384)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($27,718)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($27,718)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($20,033)
• cost of typical room and board ($9,796)
• average undergrad student loan ($5,039)
• research spending ($0.0K)
• research spending per student ($0.0)
• undergrads who get financial aid (100%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (95%)
• in-state freshmen (78.8%)
• full-time retention rate (62%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (54.1%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (50%)
• minorities (17.9%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (14.5%)
• Blacks or African Americans (12.3%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 4.7%)
• disabled students (4%)
• Hispanics (3.4%)
• Asians (1.8%)
• foreign students (1.2%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.4%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -4.5%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (450)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (430)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (560)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (540)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (6)
• average January temperature (39.2 degrees)
• dorm capacity (905)
• first-year applicants (4,800)
• foreign students (24)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• yearly for-credit students (1,924)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (8.84)
• students per faculty member (12)
• annual rainfall (46.3 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.02)
• elevation (354 meters)

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