beat out by Chancellor Univ (3) and Silver Lake College of the Holy Family (5).

tied with Duluth Business Univ (6).

Incidentally, all 4 enroll fewer than 1,000 students.

beat ITT Technical Institute-Cedar Rapids (7), Westwood College-Houston South (7), Brown Mackie College-Findlay (7), and Duke (7), and others, ending with Columbia Southern Univ (82).

2 out of the other 706 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for students per faculty member, e.g., Rensselaer Hartford Graduate Center Inc.

1. The student-faculty ratios 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). Sometimes Data File entries are combined into an umbrella major, e.g., a "Spanish major" is counted if there is a Data File entry for either 16.0905 (Spanish Language and Literature) or 16.0908 (Hispanic and Latin American Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics, General), but not 16.0900 (Romance Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics, General).
   

Westwood College-Dallas is in Dallas, TX, is private and for-profit, degree-granting, more than 50% Black, Hispanic, Asian, American Indian, or Alaska Native, its top major is design and visual communications, is on the quarter system, its top Associates major is legal assistant/paralegal, and enrolls fewer than 1,000 students.

• average full-time teaching salary ($42,219)
• average undergrad student loan ($14,284)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($13,491)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($13,491)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($4,318)
• endowment per full-time student ($0)
• undergrads who get financial aid (100%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (88%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (83%)
• minorities (66.3%)
• Blacks or African Americans (37.1%)
• Hispanics (28.3%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 8.3%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (3.4%)
• Asians (0.9%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• foreign students (0%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0%)
• full-time retention rate (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -7.7%)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• average January temperature (44.9 degrees)
• first-year applicants (0)
• 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 (350)
• students per faculty member (6)
• annual rainfall (41.6 inches)
• elevation (177 meters)

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