outdid Virginia Intermont College, Appalachian School of Law, Appalachian College of Pharmacy, and Emory & Henry College, and 79 others, ending with Centura College-Virginia 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).
   

U of Virginia's College at Wise is in Wise, VA, is public, degree-granting, has a nursing major, offers on-campus housing, requires test scores for undergrad admissions, its top major is liberal arts and sciences/liberal studies, is on the semester system, and enrolls from 1,000 to 4,999 students.

• research spending ($400K)
• average full-time teaching salary ($58,357)
• endowment per full-time student ($30,658)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($22,475)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($8,107)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($7,747)
• cost of a shared room ($5,642)
• average undergrad student loan ($5,029)
• research spending per student ($140)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (177.2%)
• undergrads who get financial aid (96%)
• in-state freshmen (94.6%)
• full-time retention rate (71%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (54%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (49.7%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (42%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (37.5%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (16.6%)
• minorities (12.7%)
• Blacks or African Americans (9.3%)
• disabled students (5%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 4.5%)
• Hispanics (2.1%)
• Asians (1.1%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.2%)
• foreign students (0.1%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -4.3%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (420)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (420)
• 25th percentile SAT writing score (400)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (530)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (520)
• 75th percentile SAT writing score (510)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (1)
• average January temperature (33.1 degrees)
• dorm capacity (749)
• first-year applicants (971)
• foreign students (2)
• full-time undergrads (1,522)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• total 75th percentile SAT score (1,560)
• undergrads (2,420)
• yearly for-credit students (2,869)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (1.51)
• students per faculty member (17)
• annual rainfall (48.0 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.03)
• elevation (761 meters)

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