after Manhattanville College ($25,470, 450), closest are College of Saint Elizabeth ($25,383, 360), Maryville College ($25,324, 440), Erskine College ($24,681, 440), and Fairleigh Dickinson Univ-College at Florham ($23,968, 450), ending with Mid-Continent Univ ($2,764, 380).

1 out of the other 602 colleges was ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for average grant aid to undergrads, i.e., San Diego State Univ-Imperial Valley Campus.

1. 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).
   
2. College SAT data is from the Institutional Characteristics Data File 2012-2013 (Provisional Release) as reported by the National Center for Education Statistics (http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds). Note that only about 41% of all colleges in this dataset reported at least one numeric SAT score.
   

Manhattanville College is in Purchase, NY, is private and nonprofit, accepts the Common Application, grants doctorates, 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.

• average full-time teaching salary ($70,231)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($35,370)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($35,370)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($25,470)
• cost of a shared room ($8,680)
• average undergrad student loan ($7,731)
• endowment per full-time student ($4,556)
• research spending ($0.0K)
• research spending per student ($0.0)
• undergrads who get financial aid (98%)
• full-time retention rate (73%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (67.6%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (65%)
• in-state freshmen (63.6%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (34%)
• minorities (21.7%)
• Hispanics (11.2%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 8.9%)
• disabled students (8%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (8%)
• Blacks or African Americans (7.7%)
• foreign students (5.9%)
• Asians (2.5%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.3%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -8.2%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (450)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (450)
• 25th percentile SAT writing score (450)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (560)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (560)
• 75th percentile SAT writing score (560)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• average January temperature (28.3 degrees)
• dorm capacity (1,330)
• first-year applicants (4,148)
• foreign students (196)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• total 75th percentile SAT score (1,680)
• yearly for-credit students (3,338)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (1.5)
• students per faculty member (11)
• annual rainfall (49.4 inches)
• elevation (79 meters)

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