bested Marymount College ($12,260) and Bard College at Simon's Rock ($12,260).

Incidentally, all 3 are private and nonprofit.

surpassed The College of New Rochelle ($11,130), Soka U of America ($10,628), U of Missouri-Kansas City ($10,535), and Portland State Univ ($9,950), and others, ending with Thomas Aquinas College ($7,800).

40 out of the other 50 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for cost of typical room and board, e.g., Sarah Lawrence College.

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.
   

Bay Path College is in Longmeadow, MA, is private and nonprofit, degree-granting, has its top Associates major in business, has its top Masters major in education, offers on-campus housing, requires test scores for undergrad admissions, its top major is liberal arts and sciences/liberal studies, is on the semester system, and enrolls from 1,000 to 4,999 students.

• average full-time teaching salary ($66,324)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($28,532)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($28,532)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($18,323)
• endowment per full-time student ($15,575)
• cost of typical room and board ($11,440)
• average undergrad student loan ($8,850)
• research spending ($0.0K)
• research spending per student ($0.0)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (100%)
• undergrads who get financial aid (100%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (100%)
• full-time retention rate (74%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (51%)
• in-state freshmen (48.4%)
• minorities (22.3%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 16.7%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (16.3%)
• Blacks or African Americans (10.3%)
• Hispanics (10.1%)
• Asians (1.6%)
• foreign students (0.3%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.3%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -14.3%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (440)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (440)
• 25th percentile SAT writing score (450)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (540)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (550)
• 75th percentile SAT writing score (530)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• dorm capacity (411)
• first-year applicants (978)
• foreign students (9)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• total 75th percentile SAT score (1,620)
• yearly for-credit students (2,780)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (0.7)
• students per faculty member (12)
• annual rainfall (44.7 inches)
• elevation (44 meters)

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