trailed Salish Kootenai College (33%), Great Basin College (42%), Brown Mackie College-Boise (42%), and Stevens Henager College (46%), and others, ending with Broadview Univ-Layton (100%).

7 out of the other 41 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for full-time retention rate, e.g., Oregon State-Cascades Campus.

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. Distance calculations between two colleges use a mathematical formula for the distance on a sphere between two points.
   

Broadview Univ-Boise is in Meridian, ID, is private and for-profit, open admission, degree-granting, has a massaging or bodywork program, is on the quarter system, its top Associates major is medical administrative/executive assistant and medical secretary, and enrolls fewer than 1,000 students.

• average full-time teaching salary ($41,970)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($14,400)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($14,400)
• average undergrad student loan ($10,108)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($8,243)
• endowment per full-time student ($0)
• undergrads who get financial aid (100%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (100%)
• in-state freshmen (100%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (85%)
• minorities (13.6%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, 12.9%)
• Hispanics (10.8%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (1.4%)
• Blacks or African Americans (0.9%)
• Asians (0.5%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• foreign students (0%)
• full-time retention rate (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, -11.5%)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• average January temperature (31.0 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 (212)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (0)
• students per faculty member (7)
• elevation (808 meters)

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