beat out by Northern State Univ ($2,703) and Black Hills State Univ ($2,834).

Incidentally, all 3 are in the Plains.

beat U of Montana ($3,226), U of Texas at Brownsville ($3,360), Ohio Valley Univ ($3,396), and Georgia Southwestern State Univ ($3,450), and others, ending with UMass-Lowell ($6,854).

20 out of the other 57 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for cost of a shared room, e.g., Caribbean Univ-Vega Baja.

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.
   

Wayne State College is in Wayne, NE, is public, is in the Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference, open admission, degree-granting, has its top Masters major in education, has its top major in business, offers on-campus housing, is on the semester system, and enrolls from 1,000 to 4,999 students.

• PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (975th place)
• average full-time teaching salary ($63,960)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($9,720)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($5,520)
• average undergrad student loan ($5,054)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($4,738)
• endowment per full-time student ($3,930)
• cost of a shared room ($2,880)
• research spending per student ($5)
• research spending ($0.0K)
• undergrads who get financial aid (93%)
• in-state freshmen (86%)
• undergrads among full-time students (85%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (76.1%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (72%)
• full-time retention rate (70%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (45%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (14.6%)
• grad students who are under 25 years old (10.8%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (10%)
• minorities (7.4%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 7%)
• disabled students (4%)
• Hispanics (3.9%)
• Blacks or African Americans (2.4%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.7%)
• foreign students (0.4%)
• Asians (0.4%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -6.5%)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (9)
• average January temperature (20.5 degrees)
• dorm capacity (1,571)
• foreign students (15)
• full-time grad students (107)
• full-time undergrads (2,779)
• grad students (535)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• undergrads (3,020)
• yearly for-credit students (4,279)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (1.01)
• students per faculty member (20)
• annual rainfall (27.4 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.03)
• elevation (456 meters)

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