outdid Cabrini College ($13,072), Pacific College of Oriental Medicine-New York ($12,946), Utica College ($12,933), and ITT Technical Institute-Hanover ($11,777), and others, ending with The College of Westchester ($1,402).

148 out of the other 515 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for average undergrad student loan, e.g., Ner Israel Rabbinical College.

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

Seton Hall is in South Orange, NJ, is private and nonprofit, is Roman Catholic, research intensive, accepts the Common Application, has a law school, has a nursing major, has had a Final Four men's basketball team, 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 business administration and management, its top Doctoral major is law, and enrolls from 5,000 to 9,999 students.

• USNews law school ranking (64th place)
• PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (131st place)
• Webometrics world ranking (1,323rd place)
• research spending ($2.5M)
• average full-time teaching salary ($89,051)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($34,750)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($34,750)
• endowment per full-time student ($26,019)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($21,377)
• average undergrad student loan ($14,243)
• cost of a shared room ($8,248)
• research spending per student ($231)
• undergrads who get financial aid (96%)
• full-time retention rate (84%)
• in-state freshmen (70.5%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (68%)
• undergrads among full-time students (55.9%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (55.2%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (34%)
• grad students who are under 25 years old (29.3%)
• minorities (28.5%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (14%)
• Blacks or African Americans (11.9%)
• Hispanics (10.1%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 10%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (9.7%)
• Asians (6.2%)
• disabled students (5%)
• foreign students (4.3%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.3%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -9.1%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (510)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (490)
• 25th percentile SAT writing score (490)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (610)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (590)
• 75th percentile SAT writing score (600)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (1)
• average January temperature (31.2 degrees)
• dorm capacity (2,238)
• first-year applicants (10,180)
• foreign students (475)
• full-time grad students (1,945)
• full-time undergrads (5,023)
• grad students (4,333)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (1)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• total 75th percentile SAT score (1,800)
• undergrads (5,497)
• yearly for-credit students (10,996)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (0.8)
• students per faculty member (14)
• annual rainfall (48.8 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.11)
• elevation (77 meters)

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