beat out by Rabbinical College of Ch'san Sofer New York ($0), Rabbinical College of Ohr Shimon Yisroel ($0), and Yeshiva Shaar Hatorah ($750).

Incidentally, all 4 have their top major in a religious field.

beat Mesivtha Tifereth Jerusalem of America ($2,000), Mesivta Torah Vodaath Rabbinical Seminary ($2,100), Mirrer Yeshiva Cent Inst. ($2,180), and Yeshiva Gedolah Zichron Leyma ($2,400), and others, ending with CUNY Graduate School and Univ Center ($21,330).

57 out of the other 136 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for cost of a shared room, e.g., Yeshiva Gedolah Imrei Yosef D'spinka.

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. Distance calculations between two colleges use a mathematical formula for the distance on a sphere between two points.
   

Mesivta of Eastern Parkway-Yeshiva Zichron Meilech is in Brooklyn, NY, is private and nonprofit, grants doctorates, offers on-campus housing, has its top major in a religious field, is on the semester system, and enrolls fewer than 1,000 students.

• average full-time teaching salary ($34,716)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($9,504)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($8,600)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($8,600)
• cost of a shared room ($1,650)
• endowment per full-time student ($0)
• research spending ($0.0K)
• research spending per student ($0.0)
• undergrads who get financial aid (79%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (79%)
• full-time retention rate (69%)
• in-state freshmen (16.7%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (9.2%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (0%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• foreign students (0%)
• Hispanics (0%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0%)
• Asians (0%)
• Blacks or African Americans (0%)
• minorities (0%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (0%)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• average January temperature (33.1 degrees)
• dorm capacity (37)
• first-year applicants (14)
• foreign students (0)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• yearly for-credit students (49)
• students per faculty member (11)
• annual rainfall (46.6 inches)
• elevation (15 meters)

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