beat Brewton-Parker College (-17.7%), Mid-Continent Univ (-2.6%), National American Univ-Sioux Falls (-0.1%), and Dine College (0%), and others, ending with Navajo Technical College (143.7%).

26 out of the other 182 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for tuition & fees increase over three years, e.g., Frontier Nursing Univ.

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 tuition & fees increase over the last three years refers to the 2009-10 and 2012-13 periods 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 Univ-Lancaster Campus is in Lancaster, OH, is public, open admission, degree-granting, is on the semester system, its top Associates major is liberal arts and sciences/liberal studies, and enrolls from 1,000 to 4,999 students.

• average full-time teaching salary ($63,973)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($6,868)
• average undergrad student loan ($5,165)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($5,022)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($4,385)
• research spending per student ($1)
• endowment per full-time student ($0)
• research spending ($0.0K)
• in-state freshmen (100%)
• undergrads who get financial aid (85%)
• full-time retention rate (60%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (55%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (55%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (36.8%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (32.5%)
• minorities (8%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, 5.8%)
• Blacks or African Americans (5.3%)
• Hispanics (1.7%)
• foreign students (0.9%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.5%)
• Asians (0.5%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, -5.5%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (-23.4%)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• average January temperature (29.2 degrees)
• foreign students (35)
• full-time undergrads (1,286)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• undergrads (2,575)
• yearly for-credit students (4,012)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (0)
• students per faculty member (25)
• annual rainfall (39.2 inches)
• elevation (298 meters)

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