bested Heritage Christian Univ (25%) and Shaw Univ (39%).

Incidentally, none of the 3 requires test scores for undergrad admissions.

trailed Virginia Union Univ (49%), Criswell College (52%), Piedmont International Univ (53%), and Luther Rice & Seminary (55%), and others, ending with Pontifical College Josephinum (100%).

80 out of the other 108 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for full-time retention rate, e.g., Meadville Lombard Theological School.

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. Information on majors and programs of study is from the Completions Data File, 2011-12 (Provisional release) as reported by the National Center for Education Statistics (http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds). Top majors are the ones that have the most conferred degrees. If it says "is in" rather than just "is", then various top majors were combined into a new attribute. For example, colleges whose top major is "in engineering" will include a college whose top major is chemical engineering, another whose top major is electrical engineering, and so on.
   

King's Univ is in Van Nuys, CA, is private and nonprofit, is Interdenominational, grants doctorates, has its top major in a religious field, is on the quarter system, its top Masters major is divinity/ministry, its top Doctoral major is pastoral studies/counseling, its top Associates major is theology/theological studies, and enrolls fewer than 1,000 students.

• research spending ($100K)
• average full-time teaching salary ($50,483)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($8,685)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($8,685)
• endowment per full-time student ($7,176)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($6,529)
• average undergrad student loan ($5,500)
• research spending per student ($104)
• undergrads who get financial aid (82%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (55%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (45%)
• full-time retention rate (45%)
• in-state freshmen (44.1%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (33.3%)
• minorities (31.4%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (17.5%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 16.3%)
• Blacks or African Americans (12.8%)
• Hispanics (10.5%)
• Asians (7.8%)
• foreign students (1%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.3%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -14%)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• average January temperature (55.3 degrees)
• first-year applicants (46)
• foreign students (6)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• yearly for-credit students (601)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (0)
• students per faculty member (11)
• annual rainfall (13.0 inches)
• elevation (227 meters)

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