outdid College of St Joseph (95%), Chowan Univ (93%), Texas A&M-Kingsville (92%), and U of Saint Mary (91%), and others, ending with Colgate (19%).

4 out of the other 120 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for undergrads who receive student loans, e.g., Antioch Univ-New England.

1. Whether a college is rural, suburban, or in a town, city, or big city, is from the IPEDS Directory, 2012-13 (Provisional release) by the National Center for Education Statistics (http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds).
   
2. The data on undergrad loans, financial aid, and Pell grants are from the Student Financial Aid Data File, 2011-12 (Provisional release) as reported by the National Center for Education Statistics (http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds).
   
3. 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.
   

Heidelberg Univ is in Tiffin, OH, is private and nonprofit, is in the Ohio Athletic Conference, is of the United Church of Christ, 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.

• PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (979th place)
• research spending ($1.1M)
• average full-time teaching salary ($54,129)
• endowment per full-time student ($24,697)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($24,580)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($24,580)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($13,910)
• average undergrad student loan ($7,132)
• cost of a shared room ($4,248)
• research spending per student ($682)
• undergrads who get financial aid (100%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (96%)
• undergrads among full-time students (88%)
• in-state freshmen (84.1%)
• full-time retention rate (62%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (44%)
• grad students who are under 25 years old (28.9%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (15.2%)
• minorities (10.2%)
• Blacks or African Americans (7.6%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 7.2%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (7.1%)
• Hispanics (1.7%)
• foreign students (1.2%)
• Asians (0.8%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.1%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -6.7%)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (11)
• average January temperature (25.5 degrees)
• dorm capacity (1,138)
• foreign students (18)
• full-time grad students (44)
• full-time undergrads (1,048)
• grad students (152)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• undergrads (1,110)
• yearly for-credit students (1,563)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (6.4)
• students per faculty member (13)
• annual rainfall (37.5 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.01)
• elevation (234 meters)

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