closest are Southern Illinois Univ Carbondale (4,622, 61%), U of Texas at San Antonio (3,645, 63%), Stephen F Austin State Univ (4,898, 63%), and Western Illinois Univ (4,400, 68%), ending with Yale (4,864, 99%).

996 colleges were ruled out due to 396 missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for dorm capacity alone and 600 for both it and full-time retention rate together.

1. Information on dorm capacity and on-campus housing 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).
   
2. Student retention data are from the file total entering class, retention rates, and student-to-faculty ratio: Fall 2012 (Provisional release) as reported by the National Center for Education Statistics (http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds).
   

Coastal Carolina Univ is in Conway, SC, is public, degree-granting, a top-100 party school, has a nursing major, has its top Masters major in education, has its top major in business, offers on-campus housing, requires test scores for undergrad admissions, is on the semester system, and enrolls from 5,000 to 9,999 students.

• PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (856th place)
• research spending ($1.5M)
• average full-time teaching salary ($62,072)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($22,050)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($9,760)
• average undergrad student loan ($7,089)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($6,028)
• cost of a shared room ($5,000)
• endowment per full-time student ($2,490)
• research spending per student ($146)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (125.9%)
• undergrads among full-time students (93.7%)
• undergrads who get financial aid (92%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (87%)
• full-time retention rate (60%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (53.8%)
• in-state freshmen (46.2%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (38%)
• grad students who are under 25 years old (22.6%)
• minorities (22.3%)
• Blacks or African Americans (18.2%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (17.5%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 9.4%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (8.5%)
• Hispanics (3%)
• foreign students (1.6%)
• Asians (0.7%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.4%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -8.6%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (460)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (450)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (560)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (540)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (6)
• average January temperature (45.9 degrees)
• dorm capacity (3,625)
• first-year applicants (10,502)
• foreign students (163)
• full-time grad students (155)
• full-time undergrads (7,916)
• grad students (589)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• undergrads (8,746)
• yearly for-credit students (10,501)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (7.02)
• students per faculty member (17)
• annual rainfall (52.1 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.05)
• elevation (12 meters)

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