Our Lady of Holy Cross College is first with -27.6%.

Incidentally, neither offers on-campus housing.

beat Amridge Univ (-15%), Texas A&M-Galveston (-2.1%), Columbia Southern Univ (2.5%), and Tougaloo College (5.1%), and others, ending with Lamar Univ (57.6%).

16 out of the other 89 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for tuition & fees increase over three years, e.g., U of Texas Medical Branch.

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.
   

Herzing Univ-Kenner is in Kenner, LA, is private and for-profit, degree-granting, more than 50% Black, Hispanic, Asian, American Indian, or Alaska Native, has its top major in business, is on the semester system, its top Associates major is surgical technology/technologist, and enrolls fewer than 1,000 students.

• average full-time teaching salary ($42,586)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($11,150)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($11,150)
• average undergrad student loan ($6,913)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($3,776)
• endowment per full-time student ($0)
• in-state freshmen (100%)
• undergrads who get financial aid (97%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (92%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (87.5%)
• minorities (67.2%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (66%)
• Blacks or African Americans (59.1%)
• full-time retention rate (33%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, 13.7%)
• Hispanics (7.1%)
• Asians (0.8%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.2%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• foreign students (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, -12.1%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (-18.8%)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• average January temperature (53.4 degrees)
• first-year applicants (62)
• foreign students (0)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• yearly for-credit students (592)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (1.69)
• students per faculty member (14)
• annual rainfall (62.4 inches)
• elevation (0 meters)

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