beat out by Mayville State Univ ($1,874), Cardinal Stritch Univ ($1,900), Salem International Univ ($2,400), and Ashford Univ ($2,600).

Incidentally, all 5 offer a meal plan.

beat Union College ($3,520), Baker Univ ($3,560), Indiana Wesleyan Univ ($3,646), and Limestone College ($3,750), and others, ending with St. John's Univ-New York ($9,550).

79 out of the other 134 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for cost of a shared room, e.g., Everest Univ-Lakeland.

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. Information on majors and programs of study is from the Completions Data File, 2011-12 (Provisional release) as reported by the National Center for Education Statistics (http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds). Top majors are the ones that have the most conferred degrees. If it says "is in" rather than just "is", then various top majors were combined into a new attribute. For example, colleges whose top major is "in engineering" will include a college whose top major is chemical engineering, another whose top major is electrical engineering, and so on.
   

Thomas More College is in Crestview Hills, KY, is private and nonprofit, is in the Presidents' Athletic Conference, is Roman Catholic, degree-granting, has a nursing major, has its top Associates major in business, has its top major in business, offers on-campus housing, requires test scores for undergrad admissions, is on the semester system, its top Masters major is business administration and management, and enrolls from 1,000 to 4,999 students.

• PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (289th place)
• average full-time teaching salary ($54,481)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($26,110)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($26,110)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($16,292)
• endowment per full-time student ($9,309)
• average undergrad student loan ($6,990)
• cost of a shared room ($3,400)
• research spending ($0.0K)
• research spending per student ($0.0)
• undergrads who get financial aid (98%)
• undergrads among full-time students (93.8%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (72%)
• full-time retention rate (65%)
• in-state freshmen (45.5%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (42.8%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (37%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (25.2%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (13.9%)
• minorities (7.8%)
• grad students who are under 25 years old (7.3%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 5.7%)
• Blacks or African Americans (5.2%)
• Hispanics (1.3%)
• Asians (1%)
• foreign students (0.4%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.3%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -5.4%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (450)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (430)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (570)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (570)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• average January temperature (30.8 degrees)
• dorm capacity (400)
• first-year applicants (1,094)
• foreign students (8)
• full-time grad students (91)
• full-time undergrads (1,258)
• grad students (109)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• undergrads (1,649)
• yearly for-credit students (2,108)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (1.42)
• students per faculty member (14)
• annual rainfall (42.5 inches)
• elevation (268 meters)

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