surpassed The Boston Conservatory ($10,700), School of the Museum of Fine Arts-Boston ($10,600), Roger Williams Univ School of Law ($10,540), and Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences ($10,400), and others, ending with Goddard College ($672).

91 out of the other 212 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for cost of a shared room, e.g., New England School of Law.

1. The regions of the country are divided into New England, Mid Atlantic, Southeast, Southwest, Far West, Rocky Mountains, Great Lakes, Plains, and Outlying Areas.
   
2. 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).
   

Suffolk Univ is in Boston, MA, is private and nonprofit, grants doctorates, has a law school, offers on-campus housing, accepts the Common Application, has its top major in business, requires test scores for undergrad admissions, is on the semester system, its top Masters major is accounting, its top Doctoral major is law, and enrolls from 5,000 to 9,999 students.

• USNews law school ranking (144th place)
• PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (289th place)
• average full-time teaching salary ($98,140)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($30,792)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($30,792)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($16,144)
• endowment per full-time student ($15,027)
• cost of a shared room ($12,124)
• average undergrad student loan ($8,340)
• research spending ($0.0K)
• research spending per student ($0.0)
• full-time retention rate (76%)
• undergrads who get financial aid (75%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (66%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (54.7%)
• in-state freshmen (54.4%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (28%)
• minorities (17.7%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 14.3%)
• foreign students (13.5%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (13.2%)
• Hispanics (6.7%)
• Asians (6.1%)
• disabled students (6%)
• Blacks or African Americans (4.6%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.3%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -12.5%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (460)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (440)
• 25th percentile SAT writing score (450)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (570)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (560)
• 75th percentile SAT writing score (570)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• average January temperature (29.0 degrees)
• dorm capacity (1,249)
• first-year applicants (9,418)
• foreign students (1,395)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• total 75th percentile SAT score (1,700)
• yearly for-credit students (10,368)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (0.5)
• students per faculty member (12)
• annual rainfall (43.8 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.27)
• elevation (12 meters)

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