surpassed Thomas College (7.33), Bates College (6.49), Unity College (4.41), and Husson Univ (4.2), and others, ending with U of Maine at Fort Kent (0).

3 out of the other 22 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students, e.g., Kaplan Univ-Augusta Campus.

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).
   

New England School of Communications is in Bangor, ME, is private and nonprofit, degree-granting, offers on-campus housing, its top major is audiovisual communications technologies/technicians, other, is on the semester system, and enrolls fewer than 1,000 students.

• average full-time teaching salary ($36,828)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($13,482)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($13,482)
• cost of typical room and board ($8,576)
• average undergrad student loan ($7,492)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($3,845)
• endowment per full-time student ($0)
• research spending ($0.0K)
• research spending per student ($0.0)
• undergrads who get financial aid (93%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (87%)
• in-state freshmen (63.9%)
• full-time retention rate (63%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (50%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (17.8%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (17.2%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (8.6%)
• disabled students (6%)
• minorities (5.2%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 4.1%)
• Blacks or African Americans (2.3%)
• Hispanics (1.1%)
• Asians (1.1%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.7%)
• foreign students (0.2%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -3.9%)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• average January temperature (17.0 degrees)
• dorm capacity (1,190)
• first-year applicants (325)
• foreign students (1)
• full-time undergrads (462)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• undergrads (499)
• yearly for-credit students (566)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (26.5)
• students per faculty member (12)
• annual rainfall (41.9 inches)
• elevation (52 meters)

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