bested Lake-Sumter Community College (321.6%), Santa Fe College (268.6%), and West Virginia Univ at Parkersburg (254.8%).

Incidentally, all 4 are open admission.

surpassed New Mexico State Univ (215.7%), Massachusetts Maritime Academy (207%), San Diego State Univ-Imperial Valley Campus (204.3%), and Cal State-Monterey Bay (195.5%), and others, ending with Monterey Inst. of International Studies (0%).

9 out of the other 131 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for non-resident tuition & fees surcharge, e.g., Hood Theological Seminary.

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. Tuition and fees are from the Institutional Characteristics Data File 2012-2013 (Provisional Release) as reported by the National Center for Education Statistics (http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds).
   

Ohio State Univ-Newark Campus is in Newark, OH, is public, open admission, degree-granting, offers on-campus housing, has its top major in education, is on the semester system, its top Associates major is general studies, and enrolls from 1,000 to 4,999 students.

• research spending ($600K)
• average full-time teaching salary ($71,999)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($22,548)
• cost of typical room and board ($9,626)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($7,140)
• average undergrad student loan ($5,283)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($4,181)
• endowment per full-time student ($1,327)
• research spending per student ($197)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (215.8%)
• in-state freshmen (99.7%)
• undergrads among full-time students (96.3%)
• undergrads who get financial aid (75%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (61%)
• full-time retention rate (61%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (43%)
• grad students who are under 25 years old (33.7%)
• minorities (17.9%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (17.2%)
• Blacks or African Americans (12.9%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (11.6%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 4.6%)
• Hispanics (2.4%)
• Asians (2.2%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.4%)
• foreign students (0.1%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -4.4%)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• average January temperature (26.9 degrees)
• dorm capacity (180)
• foreign students (2)
• full-time grad students (61)
• full-time undergrads (1,918)
• grad students (89)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• undergrads (2,301)
• yearly for-credit students (3,159)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (0.2)
• students per faculty member (24)
• annual rainfall (41.7 inches)
• elevation (273 meters)

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