beat Herzing Univ-Atlanta (-20.1%), Brewton-Parker College (-17.7%), Bauder College (-17.4%), and Virginia College-School of Business and Health (-15.8%), and others, ending with American Baptist College (95.2%).

30 out of the other 273 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for tuition & fees increase over three years, e.g., Pentecostal Theological Seminary.

1. 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).
   
2. Distance calculations between two colleges use a mathematical formula for the distance on a sphere between two points.
   

Virginia College-Birmingham is in Birmingham, AL, is private and for-profit, open admission, degree-granting, has a culinary program, has a grooming arts program, has a massaging or bodywork program, has its top major in business, is on the quarter system, its top Masters major is business administration and management, its top Associates major is medical insurance specialist/medical biller, and enrolls from 1,000 to 4,999 students.

• average full-time teaching salary ($31,369)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($11,787)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($11,787)
• average undergrad student loan ($9,513)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($4,345)
• endowment per full-time student ($0)
• undergrads who get financial aid (98%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (98%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (97%)
• undergrads among full-time students (96.2%)
• full-time retention rate (93%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (79.2%)
• in-state freshmen (33.8%)
• minorities (17.9%)
• Blacks or African Americans (17.6%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 9.2%)
• grad students who are under 25 years old (4.5%)
• foreign students (0.5%)
• Hispanics (0.3%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0%)
• Asians (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -8.4%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (-25%)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• average January temperature (43.8 degrees)
• foreign students (65)
• full-time grad students (91)
• full-time undergrads (2,341)
• grad students (177)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• undergrads (4,497)
• yearly for-credit students (12,546)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (0)
• students per faculty member (17)
• annual rainfall (53.7 inches)
• elevation (242 meters)

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