beat Colorado Heights Univ (-56.2%), Haskell Indian Nations Univ (-56%), Columbia College (-53.8%), and Daniel Webster College (-47.3%), and others, ending with Berea College (2,398%).

561 out of the other 3,121 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for tuition & fees increase over three years, e.g., UC San Francisco.

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).
   

Horizon Univ is in San Diego, CA, is private and nonprofit, open admission, degree-granting, religiously affiliated, has its top major in a religious field, is on the semester system, and enrolls fewer than 1,000 students.

• average full-time teaching salary ($36,364)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($6,340)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($6,340)
• endowment per full-time student ($0)
• full-time retention rate (100%)
• in-state freshmen (50%)
• minorities (27.3%)
• Hispanics (13.1%)
• Asians (7.1%)
• Blacks or African Americans (7.1%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• foreign students (0%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0%)
• undergrads who get financial aid (0%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (0%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (0%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (-62.8%)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• average January temperature (55.1 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 (84)
• students per faculty member (10)
• annual rainfall (12.5 inches)
• elevation (113 meters)

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