bested Laguna College of Art and Design ($8,500), Stevenson Univ ($7,888), Saint Marys College of California ($7,270), and Saint Joseph Seminary College ($6,850).

Incidentally, all 5 are private and nonprofit.

surpassed Louisiana State Univ ($6,600), Green Mountain College ($6,502), Louisiana State Univ-Alexandria ($6,390), and Saint Mary's College ($6,250), and others, ending with Oxford Graduate School ($200).

72 out of the other 182 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for cost of a shared room, e.g., Palo Alto Univ.

1. Whether a college is rural, suburban, or in a town, city, or big city, is from the IPEDS Directory, 2012-13 (Provisional release) by the National Center for Education Statistics (http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds).
   
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).
   

Franklin Pierce Univ is in Rindge, NH, is private and nonprofit, accepts the Common Application, grants doctorates, has a nursing major, has its top Associates major in business, has its top major in business, offers on-campus housing, requires test scores for undergrad admissions, is on the semester system, its top Masters major is business administration, management and operations, other, its top Doctoral major is physical therapy/therapist, and enrolls from 1,000 to 4,999 students.

• PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (571st place)
• average full-time teaching salary ($61,899)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($29,950)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($29,950)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($16,375)
• average undergrad student loan ($8,179)
• cost of a shared room ($6,634)
• endowment per full-time student ($2,038)
• research spending ($0.0K)
• research spending per student ($0.0)
• undergrads who get financial aid (93%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (78%)
• full-time retention rate (63%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (48.3%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (29%)
• in-state freshmen (21%)
• minorities (7.6%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (4.4%)
• Hispanics (3.5%)
• Blacks or African Americans (2.5%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 2.4%)
• foreign students (1.5%)
• Asians (1%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.6%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -2.4%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (440)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (440)
• 25th percentile SAT writing score (420)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (550)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (530)
• 75th percentile SAT writing score (520)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• average January temperature (20.7 degrees)
• dorm capacity (1,369)
• first-year applicants (3,546)
• foreign students (40)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• total 75th percentile SAT score (1,600)
• yearly for-credit students (2,706)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (5.3)
• students per faculty member (14)
• annual rainfall (47.5 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.00)
• elevation (315 meters)

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