bested Visible Music College (17.81), Sewanee-U of the South (12.73), and Meharry Medical College (11.92).

Incidentally, all 4 are religiously affiliated.

surpassed Richmont Graduate Univ (7.41), Welch College (7.05), Pentecostal Theological Seminary (6.24), and Johnson Univ (6.13), and others, ending with Aquinas College (0).

2 out of the other 77 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students, e.g., DeVry Univ's Keller Graduate School of Management-Tennessee.

1. Property crimes refer to annual burglary, robbery, and motor vehicle theft and are averaged over the period 2010-2012 as reported by the Office of Postsecondary Education at the Department of Education (http://www.ope.ed.gov/security). Colleges with less than 100 for-credit students are disregarded.
   
2. College geographic information is from the IPEDS Directory, 2012-13 (Provisional release) by the National Center for Education Statistics (http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds).
   

Tusculum College is in Greeneville, TN, is private and nonprofit, is in the South Atlantic Conference, is of the Presbyterian Church - USA, degree-granting, 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 1,000 to 4,999 students.

• PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (985th place)
• average full-time teaching salary ($43,073)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($21,620)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($21,620)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($14,635)
• endowment per full-time student ($8,778)
• cost of typical room and board ($8,000)
• average undergrad student loan ($5,779)
• research spending ($0.0K)
• research spending per student ($0.0)
• undergrads who get financial aid (99%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (80%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (66%)
• in-state freshmen (59%)
• full-time retention rate (57%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (41.2%)
• minorities (13.5%)
• Blacks or African Americans (11.2%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (10.7%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 3.4%)
• Hispanics (1.8%)
• foreign students (1.3%)
• Asians (0.3%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.2%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -3.3%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (440)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (400)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (540)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (520)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (1)
• average January temperature (36.0 degrees)
• dorm capacity (782)
• first-year applicants (2,825)
• foreign students (31)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• yearly for-credit students (2,435)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (11.64)
• students per faculty member (17)
• annual rainfall (42.8 inches)
• elevation (433 meters)

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