bested Emerson College ($13,958), U of California-Riverside ($13,240), and Bard College at Simon's Rock ($12,260).

Incidentally, none of the 4 is religiously affiliated.

surpassed Colby-Sawyer College ($12,060), U of Redlands ($11,924), Columbia College-Chicago ($11,920), and Wells College ($11,900), and others, ending with Calvary Bible College and Theological Seminary ($4,800).

162 out of the other 196 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for cost of typical room and board, e.g., Columbia.

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. 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).
   

Western New England Univ is in Springfield, MA, is private and nonprofit, is in the New England Football Conference, grants doctorates, has a law school, offers on-campus housing, accepts the Common Application, requires test scores for undergrad admissions, its top major is psychology, is on the semester system, its top Masters major is business administration and management, its top Doctoral major is law, and enrolls from 1,000 to 4,999 students.

• PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (396th place)
• average full-time teaching salary ($84,105)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($31,912)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($31,912)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($16,376)
• endowment per full-time student ($13,270)
• cost of typical room and board ($12,144)
• average undergrad student loan ($9,062)
• research spending ($0.0K)
• research spending per student ($0.0)
• undergrads who get financial aid (98%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (85%)
• full-time retention rate (78%)
• undergrads among full-time students (70.9%)
• in-state freshmen (43%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (39.6%)
• grad students who are under 25 years old (38.9%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (27%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 11.7%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (10.7%)
• minorities (9.7%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (5.2%)
• Blacks or African Americans (4.5%)
• disabled students (4%)
• Asians (3.2%)
• Hispanics (1.7%)
• foreign students (1%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.3%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -10.4%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (490)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (460)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (600)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (570)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• dorm capacity (2,007)
• first-year applicants (6,058)
• foreign students (42)
• full-time grad students (412)
• full-time undergrads (2,520)
• grad students (1,107)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• undergrads (2,695)
• yearly for-credit students (4,137)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (0.4)
• students per faculty member (13)
• annual rainfall (44.7 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.38)
• elevation (60 meters)

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