beat Grinnell College (95%), Drake (88%), Luther College (88%), and Iowa State Univ (86%), and others, ending with Ashford Univ (39%).

13 out of the other 48 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for full-time retention rate, e.g., Palmer College of Chiropractic-Davenport.

1. 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).
   
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).
   

Kaplan Univ-Des Moines Campus is in Urbandale, 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 ($49,860)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($15,352)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($15,352)
• average undergrad student loan ($9,780)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($6,594)
• endowment per full-time student ($0)
• full-time retention rate (100%)
• in-state freshmen (100%)
• undergrads among full-time students (91.4%)
• undergrads who get financial aid (88%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (88%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (80%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (73.9%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 36%)
• minorities (13.2%)
• Blacks or African Americans (7.7%)
• grad students who are under 25 years old (5.6%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (4.9%)
• Hispanics (3.6%)
• Asians (1.5%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.4%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• foreign students (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -26.5%)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• average January temperature (21.2 degrees)
• foreign students (0)
• full-time grad students (5)
• full-time undergrads (484)
• grad students (71)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• undergrads (750)
• yearly for-credit students (1,297)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (0)
• students per faculty member (24)
• annual rainfall (35.6 inches)
• elevation (298 meters)

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