Landmark College is first with $49,793.

Incidentally, both are private and nonprofit.

surpassed Sarah Lawrence College ($46,924), Vassar ($46,270), Carnegie Mellon ($45,760), and Trinity College ($45,730), and others, ending with Webb Inst. ($0).

365 out of the other 3,121 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees, e.g., High Point Univ.

1. Tuition and fees 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).
   

Columbia is in New York, NY, is private and nonprofit, is in the Ivy Group, research intensive, a top-100 happiest school, a member of the American Association of Universities, accepts the Common Application, has a Phi Beta Kappa chapter, has a law school, has a nursing major, offers a Doctor of Medicine degree, offers on-campus housing, requires test scores for undergrad admissions, was attended by a U.S. President, its top major is economics, is on the semester system, its top Masters major is business administration and management, its top Doctoral major is law, and enrolls 20,000 or more students.

• USNews law school ranking (4th place)
• Webometrics world ranking (5th place)
• ARWU world ranking (8th place)
• USNews MBA ranking (8th place)
• Wall St. Journal feeder school ranking (11th place)
• Times Higher Education world ranking (13th place)
• PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (54th place)
• research spending ($526.2M)
• endowment per full-time student ($298,827)
• average full-time teaching salary ($133,945)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($47,246)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($47,246)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($37,934)
• research spending per student ($18,701)
• average undergrad student loan ($7,537)
• cost of a shared room ($6,770)
• full-time retention rate (96%)
• undergrads who get financial aid (58%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (46.9%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 39%)
• grad students who are under 25 years old (32.4%)
• undergrads among full-time students (29.5%)
• minorities (25.6%)
• foreign students (24.8%)
• in-state freshmen (17.2%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (16%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (16%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (15.8%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (14.4%)
• Asians (12.2%)
• Hispanics (7.7%)
• Blacks or African Americans (5.4%)
• disabled students (4%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.3%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -28.1%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (700)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (700)
• 25th percentile SAT writing score (700)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (790)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (780)
• 75th percentile SAT writing score (790)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (40)
• average January temperature (32.6 degrees)
• dorm capacity (5,200)
• first-year applicants (34,810)
• foreign students (6,974)
• full-time grad students (14,861)
• full-time undergrads (7,236)
• grad students (18,657)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (51)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (27)
• total 75th percentile SAT score (2,360)
• undergrads (7,814)
• yearly for-credit students (28,139)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (1.0)
• students per faculty member (6)
• annual rainfall (49.9 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.11)
• elevation (31 meters)

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