bested Penn State-Shenango (380) and Penn State-Greater Allegheny (380).

tied with Rhode Island College (410).

Incidentally, all 4 require test scores for undergrad admissions.

trailed Penn State-Worthington Scranton (415), Penn State-Abington (420), Indiana Univ-Southeast (420), and Kean Univ (430), and others, ending with Colorado School of Mines (630).

21 out of the other 74 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for 25th percentile SAT math score, e.g., U of Maryland-Univ College.

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 percentage of minorities (American Indians or Alaska Natives, Asians or Pacific Islanders, Blacks or African Americans, and Hispanics) among full-time students is calculated from the 12-month Unduplicated Head Count Data File, 2011-12 (Provisional release) as reported by the National Center for Education Statistics (http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds).
   
3. College SAT data is from the Institutional Characteristics Data File 2012-2013 (Provisional Release) as reported by the National Center for Education Statistics (http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds). Note that only about 41% of all colleges in this dataset reported at least one numeric SAT score.
   
4. The type of college is from the IPEDS Directory, 2012-13 (Provisional release) by the National Center for Education Statistics and combines public/private, profit/nonprofit, length of degree program, etc (http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds).
   

Penn State-Beaver is in Monaca, PA, is public, degree-granting, offers on-campus housing, has its top major in business, requires test scores for undergrad admissions, is on the semester system, its top Associates major is liberal arts and sciences/liberal studies, and enrolls fewer than 1,000 students.

• average full-time teaching salary ($64,113)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($19,906)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($13,350)
• endowment per full-time student ($8,777)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($6,852)
• average undergrad student loan ($6,146)
• cost of a shared room ($4,910)
• in-state freshmen (89.4%)
• undergrads who get financial aid (89%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (74%)
• full-time retention rate (71%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (49.1%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (44%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (44%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 20.2%)
• minorities (12.4%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (9%)
• Blacks or African Americans (8%)
• Hispanics (2.8%)
• Asians (1.3%)
• foreign students (0.5%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.3%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -16.8%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (410)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (420)
• 25th percentile SAT writing score (400)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (550)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (520)
• 75th percentile SAT writing score (520)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• dorm capacity (212)
• first-year applicants (737)
• foreign students (6)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• total 75th percentile SAT score (1,590)
• yearly for-credit students (1,122)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (0.3)
• students per faculty member (15)
• annual rainfall (37.3 inches)
• elevation (306 meters)

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