Carnegie Mellon is first with $45,760.

Incidentally, neither provides a complete course of study during weekends or evenings.

surpassed Brown ($43,758), Washington Univ in St Louis ($43,705), U of Miami ($41,220), and U of Michigan ($40,496), and others, ending with Inter American U of Puerto Rico-Barranquitas ($4,596).

1 out of the other 179 colleges was ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees, i.e., High Point Univ.

1. 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). Sometimes Data File entries are combined into an umbrella major, e.g., a "Spanish major" is counted if there is a Data File entry for either 16.0905 (Spanish Language and Literature) or 16.0908 (Hispanic and Latin American Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics, General), but not 16.0900 (Romance Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics, General).
   
2. 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).
   

Hampshire College is in Amherst, MA, is private and nonprofit, degree-granting, offers on-campus housing, accepts the Common Application, its top major is film/video and photographic arts, other, is on a four-one-four calendar, and enrolls from 1,000 to 4,999 students.

• USNews Liberal Arts College ranking (110th place)
• research spending ($4.0M)
• average full-time teaching salary ($76,953)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($44,700)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($44,700)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($24,338)
• endowment per full-time student ($24,263)
• cost of a shared room ($7,420)
• average undergrad student loan ($5,680)
• research spending per student ($2,509)
• full-time retention rate (82%)
• undergrads who get financial aid (75%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (57%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (55.5%)
• in-state freshmen (19.6%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (17%)
• minorities (14.8%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (12%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 9.6%)
• Hispanics (9.3%)
• disabled students (7%)
• foreign students (6%)
• Blacks or African Americans (3%)
• Asians (2.1%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.4%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -8.8%)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• average January temperature (23.1 degrees)
• dorm capacity (1,184)
• first-year applicants (2,861)
• foreign students (95)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• yearly for-credit students (1,582)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (7.37)
• students per faculty member (12)
• annual rainfall (46.0 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.17)
• elevation (83 meters)

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