after Bard College at Simon's Rock ($27,679, 71%), closest are Wells College ($26,452, 70%), College of Saint Elizabeth ($25,383, 68%), Erskine College ($24,681, 63%), and Fairleigh Dickinson Univ-Metropolitan Campus ($23,475, 70%), ending with Montana Bible College ($250, 64%).

9 out of the other 1,211 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for average grant aid to undergrads, e.g., San Juan Bautista School of Medicine.

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. Student retention data are from the file total entering class, retention rates, and student-to-faculty ratio: Fall 2012 (Provisional release) as reported by the National Center for Education Statistics (http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds).
   

Bard College at Simon's Rock is in Great Barrington, MA, is private and nonprofit, degree-granting, offers on-campus housing, its top major is liberal arts and sciences/liberal studies, is on the semester system, its top Associates major is liberal arts and sciences/liberal studies, and enrolls fewer than 1,000 students.

• average full-time teaching salary ($69,602)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($45,125)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($45,125)
• endowment per full-time student ($38,268)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($27,679)
• cost of typical room and board ($12,260)
• average undergrad student loan ($6,154)
• research spending ($0.0K)
• research spending per student ($0.0)
• undergrads who get financial aid (85%)
• full-time retention rate (71%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (68%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (59.5%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (47%)
• minorities (20.9%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (12.3%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 10.5%)
• in-state freshmen (9.7%)
• Blacks or African Americans (9.2%)
• Asians (6.1%)
• foreign students (5.5%)
• Hispanics (5.3%)
• disabled students (5%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (2.3%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.3%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -9.5%)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• average January temperature (23.3 degrees)
• dorm capacity (347)
• first-year applicants (258)
• foreign students (21)
• full-time undergrads (341)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• undergrads (354)
• yearly for-credit students (379)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (7.92)
• students per faculty member (7)
• annual rainfall (48.6 inches)
• elevation (231 meters)

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