after Pitzer College ($43,402, 15.9%), closest are U of Miami ($41,220, 21.5%), Mills College ($40,080, 16.5%), U of Redlands ($39,338, 19.9%), and Dominican U of California ($39,050, 16.5%), ending with Baptist Health System School of Health Professions ($1,380, 43.6%).

32 out of the other 472 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees, e.g., Bristol 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).
   
2. The percentage of ethnic groups or other types of students among all full-time students is calculated from the 12-month Unduplicated Head Count Data File, 2011-12 (Provisional release) as reported by the National Center for Education Statistics (http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds).
   

Pitzer College is in Claremont, CA, is private and nonprofit, is in the Southern California Intercoll Ath Conf, degree-granting, a top-100 happiest school, offers on-campus housing, accepts the Common Application, its top major is English language and literature, is on the semester system, and enrolls from 1,000 to 4,999 students.

• USNews Liberal Arts College ranking (35th place)
• research spending ($300K)
• endowment per full-time student ($104,359)
• average full-time teaching salary ($92,422)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($43,402)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($43,402)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($30,595)
• cost of a shared room ($8,028)
• average undergrad student loan ($5,908)
• research spending per student ($223)
• full-time retention rate (90%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (61%)
• undergrads who get financial aid (47%)
• in-state freshmen (41.8%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (36%)
• minorities (30.5%)
• Hispanics (15.9%)
• disabled students (12%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (10.4%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (10%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 8.7%)
• Asians (8%)
• Blacks or African Americans (6.1%)
• foreign students (3.3%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.5%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -8%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (600)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (590)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (670)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (700)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• average January temperature (55.6 degrees)
• dorm capacity (851)
• first-year applicants (4,228)
• foreign students (37)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (1)
• yearly for-credit students (1,131)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (10.61)
• students per faculty member (11)
• annual rainfall (17.2 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.06)
• elevation (371 meters)

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