bested Sanford-Brown College-Tysons Corner (0%) and Saint Pauls College (1%).

Incidentally, all 3 enroll fewer than 1,000 students.

trailed Strayer Univ-Virginia (30%), Centura College-Virginia Beach (30%), Argosy Univ-Washington D.C. (33%), and U of Phoenix-Richmond Campus (40%), and others, ending with Bryant & Stratton College-Virginia Beach (100%).

18 out of the other 83 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for full-time retention rate, e.g., DeVry Univ's Keller Graduate School of Management-Virginia.

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

South Univ-Richmond is in Glen Allen, VA, is private and for-profit, degree-granting, more than 50% Black, Hispanic, Asian, American Indian, or Alaska Native, has a nursing major, has its top major in nursing, is on the quarter system, its top Masters major is business administration and management, its top Associates major is information science/studies, and enrolls fewer than 1,000 students.

• average full-time teaching salary ($53,429)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($16,360)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($16,360)
• average undergrad student loan ($6,204)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($4,286)
• endowment per full-time student ($0)
• undergrads who get financial aid (97%)
• in-state freshmen (96.7%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (90%)
• undergrads among full-time students (88.8%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (87%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (84%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (73%)
• minorities (63.6%)
• Blacks or African Americans (58.5%)
• full-time retention rate (28%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, 27.9%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (11.4%)
• grad students who are under 25 years old (5.6%)
• Hispanics (3.3%)
• Asians (1.5%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.3%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• foreign students (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, -21.8%)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• average January temperature (36.3 degrees)
• first-year applicants (51)
• foreign students (0)
• full-time grad students (17)
• full-time undergrads (373)
• grad students (71)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• undergrads (562)
• yearly for-credit students (938)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (0)
• students per faculty member (16)
• annual rainfall (43.4 inches)
• elevation (85 meters)

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