after School of the Art Inst. of Chicago ($10,400, 100%), closest are Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art ($9,970, 100%), Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering ($9,000, 100%), Arcadia Univ ($8,680, 100%), and Laguna College of Art and Design ($8,500, 100%), ending with Rabbinical College of Ch'san Sofer New York ($0, 100%).

298 out of the other 570 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for cost of a shared room, e.g., Soka U of America.

1. The data on undergrad loans, financial aid, and Pell grants are from the Student Financial Aid Data File, 2011-12 (Provisional release) as reported 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).
   

School of the Art Inst. of Chicago is in Chicago, IL, is private and nonprofit, degree-granting, offers on-campus housing, accepts the Common Application, requires test scores for undergrad admissions, its top major is fine/studio arts, is on the semester system, its top Masters major is fine/studio arts, and enrolls from 1,000 to 4,999 students.

• PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (724th place)
• average full-time teaching salary ($75,141)
• endowment per full-time student ($46,084)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($39,020)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($39,020)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($11,337)
• cost of a shared room ($10,400)
• average undergrad student loan ($9,739)
• research spending ($0.0K)
• research spending per student ($0.0)
• undergrads who get financial aid (100%)
• full-time retention rate (79%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (73.7%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (48%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (22%)
• minorities (20.6%)
• foreign students (19.8%)
• in-state freshmen (15.1%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (12.2%)
• disabled students (12%)
• Asians (10.7%)
• Hispanics (5.9%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 3.6%)
• Blacks or African Americans (3.5%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.5%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -3.4%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (500)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (510)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (620)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (630)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• average January temperature (26.0 degrees)
• dorm capacity (880)
• first-year applicants (3,004)
• foreign students (719)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• yearly for-credit students (3,626)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (0.6)
• students per faculty member (9)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.14)
• elevation (181 meters)

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