after Fisher College ($21,370, 20), closest are UC Merced ($18,063, 21), U of Pikeville ($15,618, 21), Eastern Nazarene College ($14,707, 22), and U of Texas at Dallas ($14,643, 22), ending with New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary ($971, 25).

27 out of the other 540 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for average grant aid to undergrads, e.g., Oregon State-Cascades Campus.

1. The data on undergrad loans, financial aid, and Pell grants are from the Student Financial Aid Data File, 2011-12 (Provisional release) as reported by the National Center for Education Statistics (http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds).
   
2. The student-faculty ratios 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).
   

Fisher College is in Boston, MA, is private and nonprofit, degree-granting, offers on-campus housing, has its top major in business, is on the semester system, its top Associates major is general studies, and enrolls from 1,000 to 4,999 students.

• average full-time teaching salary ($54,721)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($26,775)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($26,775)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($21,370)
• cost of typical room and board ($13,924)
• average undergrad student loan ($10,349)
• endowment per full-time student ($0)
• research spending ($0.0K)
• research spending per student ($0.0)
• undergrads who get financial aid (81%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (81%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (77%)
• in-state freshmen (71.4%)
• full-time retention rate (64%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (59.3%)
• minorities (16.6%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (14.2%)
• Blacks or African Americans (8.6%)
• Hispanics (5.6%)
• foreign students (5.1%)
• Asians (2.2%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, 1.8%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.2%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, -1.8%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (370)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (370)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (470)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (470)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• average January temperature (29.0 degrees)
• dorm capacity (323)
• first-year applicants (2,460)
• foreign students (163)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• yearly for-credit students (3,194)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (2.4)
• students per faculty member (20)
• annual rainfall (43.8 inches)
• elevation (7 meters)

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