beat out by Herzing Univ-Minneapolis (-23.1%), Academy College (-11.9%), and Brown College-Mendota Heights (-10.7%).

Incidentally, all 4 are private and for-profit.

beat Walden Univ (-9.3%), National American Univ-Brooklyn Center (-7.1%), National American Univ-Bloomington (-7.1%), and National American Univ-Roseville (-7.1%), and others, ending with Minnesota State Univ Moorhead (123.3%).

14 out of the other 80 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for tuition & fees increase over three years, e.g., Mayo Medical School.

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 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).
   

Brown College-Brooklyn Center is in Brooklyn Center, MN, is private and for-profit, open admission, degree-granting, has its top major in criminal justice, is on the quarter system, its top Associates major is computer systems networking and telecommunications, and enrolls fewer than 1,000 students.

• average full-time teaching salary ($47,728)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($15,899)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($15,899)
• average undergrad student loan ($9,000)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($5,960)
• endowment per full-time student ($0)
• undergrads who get financial aid (100%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (100%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (100%)
• in-state freshmen (100%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (59.5%)
• minorities (40.9%)
• Blacks or African Americans (33.4%)
• Asians (4.4%)
• Hispanics (2.1%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (1%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• foreign students (0%)
• full-time retention rate (0%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (-10.3%)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• average January temperature (15.2 degrees)
• foreign students (0)
• full-time undergrads (77)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• undergrads (185)
• yearly for-credit students (389)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (3.86)
• students per faculty member (9)
• annual rainfall (30.0 inches)
• elevation (258 meters)

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