beat Waldorf College (-3.6%), Kaplan Univ-Cedar Rapids Campus (0%), Kaplan Univ-Mason City Campus (4.9%), and Kaplan Univ-Des Moines Campus (4.9%), and others, ending with Brown Mackie College-Quad Cities (35.5%).

2 out of the other 48 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for tuition & fees increase over three years, e.g., Des Moines Univ-Osteopathic Medical Center.

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. The tuition & fees increase over the last three years refers to the 2009-10 and 2012-13 periods from the Institutional Characteristics Data File 2012-2013 (Provisional Release) as reported by the National Center for Education Statistics (http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds).
   

Kaplan Univ-Cedar Falls Campus is in Cedar Falls, IA, is private and for-profit, open admission, degree-granting, has its top major in criminal justice, its top Masters major is business administration and management, its top Associates major is medical/clinical assistant, and enrolls fewer than 1,000 students.

• average full-time teaching salary ($42,085)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($15,327)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($15,327)
• average undergrad student loan ($8,379)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($7,114)
• endowment per full-time student ($0)
• in-state freshmen (95.2%)
• undergrads among full-time students (89.7%)
• undergrads who get financial aid (80%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (80%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (80%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (69%)
• minorities (16.7%)
• grad students who are under 25 years old (13.7%)
• Blacks or African Americans (13.2%)
• Hispanics (2%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, 1.9%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (1%)
• Asians (0.5%)
• foreign students (0.1%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, -1.8%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (-21.4%)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• average January temperature (18.5 degrees)
• foreign students (1)
• full-time grad students (16)
• full-time undergrads (238)
• grad students (51)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• undergrads (445)
• yearly for-credit students (781)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (0)
• students per faculty member (18)
• annual rainfall (34.6 inches)
• elevation (289 meters)

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