bested Saint Pauls College (1%), Pacific Islands Univ (17%), and American Samoa Community College (31%).

tied with Baker College of Owosso (33%).

Incidentally, none of the 5 is an NCAA member.

trailed College of St Joseph (37%), Selma Univ (38%), Ashford Univ (39%), and Talladega College (39%), and others, ending with Southeastern Baptist College (100%).

32 out of the other 406 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for full-time retention rate, e.g., Gordon State College.

1. Whether a college is rural, suburban, or in a town, city, or big city, is from the IPEDS Directory, 2012-13 (Provisional release) by the National Center for Education Statistics (http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds).
   
2. 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).
   

National American Univ-Ellsworth AFB Extension is in Ellsworth Afb, SD, is private and for-profit, open admission, degree-granting, has its top Associates major in business, has its top major in business, is on the quarter system, and enrolls fewer than 1,000 students.

• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($6,012)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($6,012)
• endowment per full-time student ($0)
• in-state freshmen (83.3%)
• full-time retention rate (33%)
• minorities (21.4%)
• Blacks or African Americans (12.1%)
• Hispanics (6.3%)
• Asians (2.4%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (1.4%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.6%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• foreign students (0%)
• undergrads who get financial aid (0%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (0%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (0%)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• average January temperature (25.0 degrees)
• 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 (622)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (0)
• students per faculty member (37)
• annual rainfall (16.3 inches)
• elevation (979 meters)

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