bested Howard Univ (41.1%), Bryn Athyn College of the New Church (40.8%), Sanford-Brown College-Tysons Corner (38.1%), and Harrisburg U of Science and Technology (32.8%).

Incidentally, none of the 5 is a top-Green college.

surpassed Saint Charles Borromeo Seminary-Overbrook (26.1%), Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (24.5%), U of Delaware (24.1%), and Valley Forge Christian College (22.6%), and others, ending with Coppin State Univ (-23.2%).

44 out of the other 209 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for tuition & fees increase over three years, e.g., Thomas Jefferson Univ.

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.
   

Lancaster General College of Nursing & Health Sciences is in Lancaster, PA, is private and nonprofit, degree-granting, has a nursing major, has an emergency medical technology program, has its top Associates major in nursing, has its top major in nursing, requires test scores for undergrad admissions, is on the semester system, and enrolls from 1,000 to 4,999 students.

• average full-time teaching salary ($56,730)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($20,150)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($20,150)
• average undergrad student loan ($8,618)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($5,166)
• endowment per full-time student ($1,536)
• research spending per student ($29)
• research spending ($0.0K)
• in-state freshmen (99.3%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (92.6%)
• undergrads who get financial aid (90%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (85%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (40%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (28.8%)
• minorities (11.5%)
• Blacks or African Americans (5.2%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, 4%)
• Hispanics (4%)
• Asians (2%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.3%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• foreign students (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, -3.9%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (460)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (440)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (550)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (550)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• average January temperature (30.1 degrees)
• first-year applicants (517)
• 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 (1,485)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (0.2)
• students per faculty member (8)
• annual rainfall (42.8 inches)
• elevation (122 meters)

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