Tulane is first with $45,240.

Incidentally, both are in a large city.

surpassed Millsaps College ($30,974), Centenary College of Louisiana ($29,500), Spring Hill College ($29,450), and Auburn Univ at Montgomery ($23,150), and others, ending with Southeastern Baptist College ($4,790).

4 out of the other 88 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees, e.g., Notre Dame Seminary Graduate School of Theology.

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. Distance calculations between two colleges use a mathematical formula for the distance on a sphere between two points.
   

Loyola Univ-New Orleans is in New Orleans, LA, is private and nonprofit, is Roman Catholic, accepts the Common Application, grants doctorates, has a law school, has a nursing major, has its top Masters major in nursing, offers on-campus housing, requires test scores for undergrad admissions, its top major is psychology, is on the semester system, its top Doctoral major is law, and enrolls from 1,000 to 4,999 students.

• USNews law school ranking (126th place)
• PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (619th place)
• research spending ($1.0M)
• average full-time teaching salary ($77,932)
• endowment per full-time student ($53,427)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($34,952)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($34,952)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($21,008)
• cost of a shared room ($6,854)
• average undergrad student loan ($6,840)
• research spending per student ($165)
• undergrads who get financial aid (98%)
• full-time retention rate (73%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (64%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (62.6%)
• in-state freshmen (36.5%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (32%)
• minorities (28.8%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (17.8%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 16.3%)
• Blacks or African Americans (14.3%)
• disabled students (12%)
• Hispanics (10.3%)
• Asians (3.3%)
• foreign students (3%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.9%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -14%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (510)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (530)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (620)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (650)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (3)
• average January temperature (54.3 degrees)
• dorm capacity (1,369)
• first-year applicants (6,486)
• foreign students (172)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (1)
• yearly for-credit students (5,780)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (0.6)
• students per faculty member (11)
• annual rainfall (62.3 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.03)
• elevation (0 meters)

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