bested Fordham ($15,374), Fisher College ($13,924), and U of California-Riverside ($13,240).

Incidentally, all 4 are in a large city.

surpassed Newbury College-Brookline ($12,520), Mount Ida College ($12,500), Colby-Sawyer College ($12,060), and U of the Pacific ($12,038), and others, ending with Midland College ($4,489).

549 out of the other 620 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for cost of typical room and board, e.g., USC.

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. Information on majors and programs of study is from the Completions Data File, 2011-12 (Provisional release) as reported by the National Center for Education Statistics (http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds). Top majors are the ones that have the most conferred degrees. If it says "is in" rather than just "is", then various top majors were combined into a new attribute. For example, colleges whose top major is "in engineering" will include a college whose top major is chemical engineering, another whose top major is electrical engineering, and so on.
   

Emmanuel College is in Boston, MA, is private and nonprofit, is Roman Catholic, degree-granting, has a nursing major, has its top major in business, offers on-campus housing, requires test scores for undergrad admissions, is on the semester system, its top Masters major is business administration and management, and enrolls from 1,000 to 4,999 students.

• average full-time teaching salary ($68,273)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($33,650)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($33,650)
• endowment per full-time student ($28,533)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($16,664)
• cost of typical room and board ($12,990)
• average undergrad student loan ($8,390)
• research spending ($0.0K)
• research spending per student ($0.0)
• undergrads who get financial aid (98%)
• full-time retention rate (81%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (79%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (68.2%)
• in-state freshmen (56.2%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (27%)
• minorities (15.1%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (14.6%)
• Blacks or African Americans (6.3%)
• Hispanics (5.7%)
• Asians (2.8%)
• foreign students (1.2%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, 0.3%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.3%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, -0.3%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (500)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (510)
• 25th percentile SAT writing score (510)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (600)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (600)
• 75th percentile SAT writing score (600)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• average January temperature (26.9 degrees)
• dorm capacity (1,393)
• first-year applicants (7,851)
• foreign students (34)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• total 75th percentile SAT score (1,800)
• yearly for-credit students (2,940)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (2.04)
• students per faculty member (14)
• annual rainfall (49.7 inches)
• elevation (2 meters)

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