beat Wichita State Univ ($5,730), U of North Dakota ($6,524), U of Southern Mississippi ($6,907), and Texas A&M-Kingsville ($6,940), and others, ending with Fordham ($15,374).

244 out of the other 295 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for cost of typical room and board, e.g., U of Puerto Rico-Rio Piedras.

1. Whether a college is research intensive 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).
   

Pacifica Graduate Inst. is in Carpinteria, CA, is private and for-profit, research intensive, offers on-campus housing, is on the quarter system, its top Masters major is counseling psychology, its top Doctoral major is clinical psychology, and enrolls from 1,000 to 4,999 students.

• average full-time teaching salary ($72,683)
• cost of typical room and board ($5,665)
• endowment per full-time student ($0)
• minorities (16.8%)
• Hispanics (10.8%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 6.5%)
• Blacks or African Americans (3.5%)
• Asians (1.9%)
• foreign students (0.9%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.6%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -6.1%)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• dorm capacity (120)
• foreign students (8)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• yearly for-credit students (938)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (0)
• annual rainfall (31.3 inches)
• elevation (29 meters)

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