after Hartwick College ($37,460, 38%), closest are Stetson Univ ($36,644, 40%), Menlo College ($36,110, 42%), U of California-Riverside ($35,838, 59%), and Colby-Sawyer College ($35,810, 38%), ending with Haskell Indian Nations Univ ($182, 68%).

2 out of the other 563 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees, e.g., Fremont College.

1. Tuition and fees 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. 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).
   
3. 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.
   

Hartwick College is in Oneonta, NY, is private and nonprofit, degree-granting, accepts the Common Application, has a nursing major, has its top major in business, offers on-campus housing, is on a four-one-four calendar, and enrolls from 1,000 to 4,999 students.

• USNews Liberal Arts College ranking (161st place)
• PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (181st place)
• research spending ($100K)
• average full-time teaching salary ($69,457)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($37,460)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($37,460)
• endowment per full-time student ($36,916)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($22,404)
• average undergrad student loan ($7,602)
• cost of a shared room ($5,305)
• research spending per student ($44)
• undergrads who get financial aid (100%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (73%)
• full-time retention rate (73%)
• in-state freshmen (66.7%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (58.3%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (38%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (12.4%)
• minorities (12.4%)
• disabled students (6%)
• Hispanics (5.5%)
• Blacks or African Americans (5%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (3.9%)
• foreign students (3%)
• Asians (1.6%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 0.5%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.3%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -0.5%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (500)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (520)
• 25th percentile SAT writing score (500)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (610)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (610)
• 75th percentile SAT writing score (600)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• average January temperature (20.4 degrees)
• dorm capacity (1,202)
• first-year applicants (5,795)
• foreign students (49)
• full-time undergrads (1,503)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• total 75th percentile SAT score (1,820)
• undergrads (1,558)
• yearly for-credit students (1,607)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (3.94)
• students per faculty member (11)
• annual rainfall (41.9 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.11)
• elevation (330 meters)

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