bested Victory Univ (24) and Tennessee Technological Univ (22).

tied with U of Phoenix-Nashville Campus (21).

Incidentally, none of the 4 is religiously affiliated.

surpassed U of Phoenix-Knoxville Campus (20), Middle Tennessee State Univ (20), U of Phoenix-Chattanooga Campus (19), and East Tennessee State Univ (19), and others, ending with Daymar Institute-Nashville (7).

9 out of the other 77 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for students per faculty member, e.g., Meharry Medical College.

1. College geographic information is from the IPEDS Directory, 2012-13 (Provisional release) by the National Center for Education Statistics (http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds).
   
2. 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).
   

U of Phoenix-Memphis Campus is in Cordova, TN, is private and for-profit, open admission, degree-granting, more than 50% Black, Hispanic, Asian, American Indian, or Alaska Native, has its top major in business, its top Masters major is business administration and management, and enrolls from 1,000 to 4,999 students.

• average full-time teaching salary ($35,482)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($11,440)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($11,440)
• average undergrad student loan ($9,156)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($5,350)
• endowment per full-time student ($0)
• undergrads who get financial aid (95%)
• undergrads among full-time students (92.8%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (92%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (92%)
• in-state freshmen (92%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (81.7%)
• minorities (57.4%)
• Blacks or African Americans (55.8%)
• full-time retention rate (43%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, 15%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (9.6%)
• grad students who are under 25 years old (7.1%)
• Hispanics (1%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.4%)
• foreign students (0.3%)
• Asians (0.2%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, -13.1%)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• average January temperature (39.1 degrees)
• foreign students (5)
• full-time grad students (98)
• full-time undergrads (1,270)
• grad students (98)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• undergrads (1,270)
• yearly for-credit students (1,909)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (0)
• students per faculty member (21)
• annual rainfall (54.9 inches)
• elevation (93 meters)

Sources