surpassed U of New Haven ($8,500), Fairfield Univ ($7,690), Trinity College ($7,660), and U of Hartford ($7,328), and others, ending with Hartford Seminary ($3,840).

17 out of the other 33 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for cost of a shared room, e.g., Rensselaer Hartford Graduate Center Inc.

1. The costs of room and board are from the Institutional Characteristics Data File 2012-2013 (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).
   

Sacred Heart Univ is in Fairfield, CT, is private and nonprofit, is in the Northeast Conference, is Roman Catholic, accepts the Common Application, grants doctorates, has a nursing major, has its top Masters major in education, has its top major in business, offers on-campus housing, is on the semester system, its top Doctoral major is physical therapy/therapist, its top Associates major is general studies, and enrolls from 5,000 to 9,999 students.

• PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (330th place)
• average full-time teaching salary ($73,928)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($34,030)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($34,030)
• endowment per full-time student ($19,185)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($12,589)
• cost of a shared room ($9,380)
• average undergrad student loan ($8,551)
• research spending ($0.0K)
• research spending per student ($0.0)
• undergrads who get financial aid (97%)
• full-time retention rate (83%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (75%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (65.3%)
• undergrads among full-time students (63.6%)
• in-state freshmen (29.2%)
• grad students who are under 25 years old (27%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (18%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (14.2%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (12.3%)
• minorities (12.2%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 9.4%)
• disabled students (8%)
• Hispanics (5.1%)
• Blacks or African Americans (5.1%)
• foreign students (2.1%)
• Asians (1.8%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.2%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -8.6%)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (1)
• average January temperature (28.6 degrees)
• dorm capacity (2,306)
• first-year applicants (8,314)
• foreign students (163)
• full-time grad students (771)
• full-time undergrads (3,399)
• grad students (2,342)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• undergrads (4,092)
• yearly for-credit students (7,635)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (1.22)
• students per faculty member (13)
• annual rainfall (47.7 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.10)
• elevation (84 meters)

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