beat out by Yeshiva Shaarei Torah of Rockland ($0), Watson School of Biological Sciences at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory ($750), and U Teologica del Caribe ($1,200).

tied with Cardinal Stritch Univ ($1,900).

Incidentally, all 5 offer on-campus housing.

beat Yeshivath Viznitz ($1,950), Uta Mesivta of Kiryas Joel ($2,000), Yeshiva Gedolah of Greater Detroit ($2,000), and Bais HaMedrash and Mesivta of Baltimore ($2,200), and others, ending with New York Film Academy ($15,250).

451 out of the other 737 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for cost of a shared room, e.g., Ohio Mid-Western College.

1. Whether a college is rural, suburban, or in a town, city, or big city, is from the IPEDS Directory, 2012-13 (Provisional release) by the National Center for Education Statistics (http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds).
   
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).
   

Yeshiva D'monsey Rabbinical College is in Monsey, 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 ($25,909)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($5,688)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($5,200)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($5,200)
• cost of a shared room ($1,900)
• endowment per full-time student ($0)
• research spending ($0.0K)
• research spending per student ($0.0)
• undergrads who get financial aid (100%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (100%)
• in-state freshmen (100%)
• full-time retention rate (88%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (19.5%)
• 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 (27.7 degrees)
• dorm capacity (72)
• first-year applicants (7)
• 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 (86)
• students per faculty member (10)
• annual rainfall (50.3 inches)
• elevation (188 meters)

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