bested Walden Univ ($2,576), U of Wisconsin-Stevens Point ($3,176), Laurel Univ ($3,311), and U of Wisconsin-Platteville ($3,380).

Incidentally, none of the 5 provides a complete course of study during weekends or evenings.

trailed Southern Utah Univ ($3,890), Colorado Mesa Univ ($4,241), U of Alaska Southeast ($4,642), and Jones International Univ ($4,666), and others, ending with Elmira College ($26,633).

5 out of the other 102 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for average grant aid to undergrads, e.g., Central Methodist Univ-College of Graduate & Extended Studies.

1. The data on undergrad loans, financial aid, and Pell grants are from the Student Financial Aid Data File, 2011-12 (Provisional release) as reported by the National Center for Education Statistics (http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds).
   
2. Information on majors and programs of study is from the Completions Data File, 2011-12 (Provisional release) as reported by the National Center for Education Statistics (http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds). Top majors are the ones that have the most conferred degrees. If it says "is in" rather than just "is", then various top majors were combined into a new attribute. For example, colleges whose top major is "in engineering" will include a college whose top major is chemical engineering, another whose top major is electrical engineering, and so on.
   

U of Wisconsin-Stout is in Menomonie, WI, is public, is in the Wisconsin Intercollegiate Ath Conf, degree-granting, 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 a four-one-four calendar, and enrolls from 5,000 to 9,999 students.

• PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (619th place)
• research spending ($400K)
• average full-time teaching salary ($57,395)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($16,690)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($8,944)
• average undergrad student loan ($6,772)
• endowment per full-time student ($4,510)
• cost of a shared room ($3,600)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($3,451)
• research spending per student ($35)
• undergrads among full-time students (89.5%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (86.6%)
• undergrads who get financial aid (85%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (73%)
• full-time retention rate (70%)
• in-state freshmen (60.9%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (49.8%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (30%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (17%)
• grad students who are under 25 years old (15.3%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 8.4%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (7.2%)
• minorities (6.3%)
• foreign students (2.7%)
• Asians (2.7%)
• Hispanics (1.8%)
• Blacks or African Americans (1.2%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.6%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -7.7%)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (3)
• average January temperature (14.5 degrees)
• dorm capacity (3,093)
• first-year applicants (3,390)
• foreign students (307)
• full-time grad students (232)
• full-time undergrads (6,920)
• grad students (976)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• undergrads (8,307)
• yearly for-credit students (11,295)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (0.8)
• students per faculty member (20)
• annual rainfall (31.2 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.06)
• elevation (261 meters)

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