Berklee College of Music is first with $16,950.

Incidentally, both are in a large city.

surpassed UC Berkeley ($15,304), UC Santa Cruz ($14,861), Pace Univ-New York ($14,800), and UC Merced ($14,272), and others, ending with Vermont College of Fine Arts ($1,197).

2,772 out of the other 3,121 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for cost of typical room and board, e.g., Landmark College.

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).
   

Fordham is in Bronx, NY, is private and nonprofit, is Roman Catholic, research intensive, accepts the Common Application, has a Phi Beta Kappa chapter, has a law school, 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 social work, its top Doctoral major is law, and enrolls from 10,000 to 19,999 students.

• USNews law school ranking (38th place)
• USNews MBA ranking (79th place)
• PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (173rd place)
• Webometrics world ranking (629th place)
• research spending ($10.8M)
• average full-time teaching salary ($108,363)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($41,732)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($41,732)
• endowment per full-time student ($33,220)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($20,573)
• cost of typical room and board ($15,374)
• average undergrad student loan ($6,935)
• research spending per student ($617)
• undergrads who get financial aid (90%)
• full-time retention rate (88%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (60%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (55.7%)
• in-state freshmen (41.4%)
• minorities (26.2%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (18%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (14%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 12.8%)
• Hispanics (11.9%)
• foreign students (7.5%)
• Asians (7.1%)
• Blacks or African Americans (7%)
• disabled students (4%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.2%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -11.3%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (590)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (570)
• 25th percentile SAT writing score (580)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (680)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (670)
• 75th percentile SAT writing score (680)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (69)
• average January temperature (32.3 degrees)
• dorm capacity (4,290)
• first-year applicants (34,070)
• foreign students (1,312)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (2)
• total 75th percentile SAT score (2,030)
• yearly for-credit students (17,522)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (1.99)
• students per faculty member (13)
• annual rainfall (49.0 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.13)
• elevation (20 meters)

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