beat U of Virginia (98%), Johns Hopkins (97%), UC Berkeley (96%), and U of Florida (96%), and others, ending with Penn State-World Campus (0%).

36 out of the other 794 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for full-time retention rate, e.g., U of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio.

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). 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).
   

Brown Mackie College-Miami is in Miami, FL, 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 criminal justice, is on the quarter system, its top Associates major is criminal justice/safety studies, and enrolls from 1,000 to 4,999 students.

• average full-time teaching salary ($63,022)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($14,796)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($14,796)
• average undergrad student loan ($7,787)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($5,479)
• endowment per full-time student ($0)
• full-time retention rate (100%)
• in-state freshmen (100%)
• minorities (97.7%)
• undergrads who get financial aid (95%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (91%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (90%)
• Blacks or African Americans (75.5%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (57.1%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (32.3%)
• Hispanics (21.9%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 7.4%)
• Asians (0.2%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.1%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• foreign students (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -6.9%)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• average January temperature (67.6 degrees)
• foreign students (0)
• full-time undergrads (1,016)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• undergrads (1,016)
• yearly for-credit students (1,679)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (0)
• students per faculty member (8)
• annual rainfall (51.7 inches)
• elevation (1 meter)

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