beat out by Saint Anselm College (1.2%) and Cedarville Univ (1.4%).

Incidentally, all 3 are religiously affiliated.

beat U of Scranton (3.7%), Georgia College & State Univ (3.9%), Salve Regina Univ (4.2%), and Augustana College (4.7%), and others, ending with Western Governors Univ (92.5%).

142 out of the other 338 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for undergrads who are 25 years or older, e.g., Trinity College of Nursing & Health Sciences.

1. Information on numbers and ages of the undergrad and graduate student body is from the file enrollment by age, gender, attendance status, and level of student: Fall 2012 (Provisional release) as reported by the National Center for Education Statistics (http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds).
   
2. 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.
   

Messiah College is in Mechanicsburg, PA, is private and nonprofit, is Interdenominational, degree-granting, has a nursing major, has its top major in nursing, offers on-campus housing, requires test scores for undergrad admissions, is on the semester system, its top Masters major is health professions and related clinical sciences, other, and enrolls from 1,000 to 4,999 students.

• PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (498th place)
• average full-time teaching salary ($65,985)
• endowment per full-time student ($39,331)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($29,460)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($29,460)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($14,787)
• average undergrad student loan ($7,555)
• cost of a shared room ($4,640)
• research spending ($0.0K)
• research spending per student ($0.0)
• undergrads who get financial aid (100%)
• undergrads among full-time students (92.7%)
• full-time retention rate (86%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (74%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (63.4%)
• in-state freshmen (58.1%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (22%)
• grad students who are under 25 years old (14.2%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 10.5%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (10.3%)
• minorities (5.9%)
• disabled students (5%)
• Hispanics (2.3%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (2.2%)
• Blacks or African Americans (2.2%)
• foreign students (2%)
• Asians (1.3%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.1%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -9.5%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (510)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (510)
• 25th percentile SAT writing score (493)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (630)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (620)
• 75th percentile SAT writing score (620)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• average January temperature (30.5 degrees)
• dorm capacity (2,383)
• first-year applicants (3,153)
• foreign students (63)
• full-time grad students (36)
• full-time undergrads (2,710)
• grad students (219)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (1)
• total 75th percentile SAT score (1,870)
• undergrads (2,798)
• yearly for-credit students (3,135)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (0.2)
• students per faculty member (13)
• annual rainfall (40.9 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.07)
• elevation (133 meters)

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