bested Saint Pauls College (1%), Lincoln Univ (36%), and Selma Univ (38%).

tied with Talladega College (39%).

Incidentally, none of the 5 grants doctorates.

trailed Morris College (40%), Arkansas Baptist College (41%), Central State Univ (43%), and Texas College (44%), and others, ending with Virginia U of Lynchburg (100%).

3 out of the other 87 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for full-time retention rate, e.g., Meharry Medical College.

1. Whether a college is historically black is from the IPEDS Directory, 2012-13 (Provisional 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).
   

Shaw Univ is in Raleigh, NC, is private and nonprofit, is in the Central Intercollegiate Athletic Assoc, is Baptist, degree-granting, historically black, offers on-campus housing, has its top major in business, is on the semester system, its top Masters major is divinity/ministry, and enrolls from 1,000 to 4,999 students.

• PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (1,017th place)
• research spending ($2.7M)
• average full-time teaching salary ($48,075)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($14,414)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($14,414)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($7,562)
• average undergrad student loan ($6,665)
• endowment per full-time student ($4,137)
• cost of a shared room ($3,694)
• research spending per student ($996)
• undergrads who get financial aid (98%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (90%)
• minorities (84.9%)
• Blacks or African Americans (84.2%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (82%)
• in-state freshmen (61.7%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (51.4%)
• full-time retention rate (39%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (23.2%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 1.7%)
• foreign students (1.7%)
• Hispanics (0.5%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.2%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• Asians (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -1.7%)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (1)
• average January temperature (41.9 degrees)
• dorm capacity (1,100)
• first-year applicants (6,763)
• foreign students (46)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• yearly for-credit students (2,690)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (25.77)
• students per faculty member (15)
• annual rainfall (46.2 inches)
• elevation (90 meters)

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