beat out by Herzing Univ-Toledo (-31.8%), U of Northwestern Ohio (-30.8%), Ohio Univ-Chillicothe Campus (-23.4%), and Ohio Univ-Lancaster Campus (-23.4%).

Incidentally, none of the 5 requires test scores for undergrad admissions.

beat Coppin State Univ (-23.2%), Akron Inst. of Herzing Univ (-22.8%), Potomac College-VA Campus (-20.3%), and Potomac College-Washington (-20.3%), and others, ending with Berea College (2,398%).

86 out of the other 596 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for tuition & fees increase over three years, e.g., U of Maryland-Baltimore.

1. 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).
   
2. Distance calculations between two colleges use a mathematical formula for the distance on a sphere between two points.
   

Ohio Univ-Zanesville Campus is in Zanesville, OH, is public, open admission, degree-granting, has its top Associates major in nursing, is on the semester system, and enrolls from 1,000 to 4,999 students.

• average full-time teaching salary ($61,534)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($6,876)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($5,030)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($4,765)
• average undergrad student loan ($4,451)
• research spending per student ($2)
• endowment per full-time student ($0)
• research spending ($0.0K)
• undergrads who get financial aid (100%)
• in-state freshmen (99.6%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (65%)
• full-time retention rate (63%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (49%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (37.9%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (36.7%)
• minorities (6.3%)
• Blacks or African Americans (4.2%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 3.4%)
• foreign students (1.8%)
• Hispanics (1.3%)
• Asians (0.5%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.3%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -3.3%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (-23.3%)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• average January temperature (28.8 degrees)
• foreign students (72)
• full-time undergrads (1,082)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• undergrads (1,970)
• yearly for-credit students (3,938)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (0)
• students per faculty member (22)
• annual rainfall (37.9 inches)
• elevation (231 meters)

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