surpassed College of Saint Elizabeth ($12,254), U of Portland ($12,238), Hawaii Pacific Univ ($12,230), and College of Mount Saint Vincent ($11,650), and others, ending with Lubbock Christian Univ ($5,400).

300 out of the other 338 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for cost of typical room and board, e.g., U of Rochester.

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.
   

Simmons College is in Boston, MA, is private and nonprofit, accepts the Common Application, grants doctorates, has a nursing major, has its top major in nursing, offers on-campus housing, requires test scores for undergrad admissions, is on the semester system, its top Masters major is library and information science, its top Doctoral major is physical therapy/therapist, and enrolls from 1,000 to 4,999 students.

• PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (284th place)
• research spending ($600K)
• average full-time teaching salary ($81,647)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($34,350)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($34,350)
• endowment per full-time student ($31,404)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($18,823)
• cost of typical room and board ($13,140)
• average undergrad student loan ($9,407)
• research spending per student ($126)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (100%)
• undergrads who get financial aid (97%)
• full-time retention rate (85%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (77%)
• in-state freshmen (49.4%)
• undergrads among full-time students (37.1%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (36%)
• grad students who are under 25 years old (24.7%)
• disabled students (17%)
• minorities (15.7%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (15.4%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (9.2%)
• Blacks or African Americans (6.2%)
• Asians (5.2%)
• Hispanics (4%)
• foreign students (1.7%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, 1.2%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.3%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, -1.2%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (520)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (520)
• 25th percentile SAT writing score (530)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (620)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (630)
• 75th percentile SAT writing score (630)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• average January temperature (26.9 degrees)
• dorm capacity (1,039)
• first-year applicants (4,440)
• foreign students (85)
• full-time grad students (802)
• full-time undergrads (1,647)
• grad students (3,038)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• total 75th percentile SAT score (1,880)
• undergrads (1,792)
• yearly for-credit students (5,131)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (2.27)
• students per faculty member (11)
• annual rainfall (49.7 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.47)
• elevation (2 meters)

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