bested SUNY Downstate Medical Center ($10,040), Molloy College ($9,090), and U of San Francisco ($8,490).

Incidentally, all 4 offer on-campus housing.

surpassed Salem State Univ ($8,292), Seton Hall ($8,248), Upstate Medical Univ ($8,100), and Daemen College ($8,000), and others, ending with U of Arkansas for Medical Sciences ($720).

121 out of the other 311 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for cost of a shared room, e.g., Medical U of South Carolina.

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.
   

Adelphi Univ is in Garden City, NY, is private and nonprofit, research intensive, accepts the Common Application, 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 social work, its top Doctoral major is clinical psychology, its top Associates major is liberal arts and sciences/liberal studies, and enrolls from 5,000 to 9,999 students.

• PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (405th place)
• research spending ($600K)
• average full-time teaching salary ($97,005)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($29,320)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($29,320)
• endowment per full-time student ($18,290)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($15,341)
• cost of a shared room ($8,420)
• average undergrad student loan ($7,100)
• research spending per student ($62)
• undergrads who get financial aid (96%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (87%)
• in-state freshmen (82.4%)
• full-time retention rate (82%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (69.6%)
• undergrads among full-time students (64.9%)
• grad students who are under 25 years old (39.8%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (35%)
• minorities (27.8%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (15.1%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 14.2%)
• Blacks or African Americans (12.8%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (11.8%)
• Hispanics (9.8%)
• disabled students (6%)
• Asians (5%)
• foreign students (4.9%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.2%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -12.4%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (510)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (500)
• 25th percentile SAT writing score (510)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (620)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (600)
• 75th percentile SAT writing score (620)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• average January temperature (32.9 degrees)
• dorm capacity (1,280)
• first-year applicants (9,184)
• foreign students (483)
• full-time grad students (1,629)
• full-time undergrads (4,525)
• grad students (2,756)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• total 75th percentile SAT score (1,840)
• undergrads (5,103)
• yearly for-credit students (9,876)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (0.3)
• students per faculty member (12)
• annual rainfall (46.6 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.05)
• elevation (23 meters)

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