outdid Lutheran Theological Southern Seminary, W L Bonner College, U of South Carolina-Columbia, and Allen Univ, and 42 others, ending with ITT Technical Institute-Myrtle Beach.

1. College geographic information is from the IPEDS Directory, 2012-13 (Provisional release) by the National Center for Education Statistics (http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds).
   
2. Student density refers to the total number of yearly for-credit students within a 5-mile radius, using enrollment data from the 12-month Unduplicated Head Count Data File, 2011-12 (Provisional release) and latitude/longitude data from the IPEDS Directory, 2012-13 (Provisional release) by the National Center for Education Statistics (http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds).
   

Columbia College is in Columbia, SC, is private and nonprofit, is United Methodist, degree-granting, offers on-campus housing, has its top Masters major in education, requires test scores for undergrad admissions, its top major is human development, family studies, and related services, other, is on the semester system, and enrolls from 1,000 to 4,999 students.

• average full-time teaching salary ($50,733)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($26,030)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($26,030)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($20,303)
• endowment per full-time student ($17,219)
• average undergrad student loan ($5,291)
• cost of a shared room ($3,394)
• research spending ($0.0K)
• research spending per student ($0.0)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (100%)
• undergrads who get financial aid (100%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (97%)
• in-state freshmen (86.7%)
• undergrads among full-time students (86.1%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (66%)
• full-time retention rate (60%)
• minorities (44.5%)
• Blacks or African Americans (39.5%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (33.5%)
• grad students who are under 25 years old (18.9%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (10.9%)
• Hispanics (3.2%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, 1.7%)
• Asians (1.5%)
• foreign students (0.7%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.3%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, -1.7%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (460)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (460)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (560)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (560)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• average January temperature (47.8 degrees)
• dorm capacity (562)
• first-year applicants (772)
• foreign students (11)
• full-time grad students (151)
• full-time undergrads (829)
• grad students (175)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• undergrads (1,082)
• yearly for-credit students (1,495)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (0.2)
• students per faculty member (12)
• annual rainfall (46.3 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.01)
• elevation (89 meters)

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