surpassed Boston College ($7,790), U of Hartford ($7,328), U of Rhode Island ($7,314), and Cabrini College ($7,170), and others, ending with Dixie State Univ ($1,550).

2 out of the other 16 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for cost of a shared room, e.g., Santa Clara Univ.

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.
   

Marymount Manhattan College is in New York, NY, is private and nonprofit, degree-granting, offers on-campus housing, accepts the Common Application, requires test scores for undergrad admissions, its top major is speech communication and rhetoric, is on the semester system, its top Associates major is social sciences, and enrolls from 1,000 to 4,999 students.

• PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (777th place)
• average full-time teaching salary ($69,594)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($25,688)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($25,688)
• cost of a shared room ($11,930)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($9,862)
• endowment per full-time student ($9,476)
• average undergrad student loan ($7,260)
• research spending ($0.0K)
• research spending per student ($0.0)
• undergrads who get financial aid (91%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (80%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (79%)
• full-time retention rate (68%)
• in-state freshmen (32%)
• minorities (31.4%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (29%)
• Hispanics (14.9%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (13.2%)
• Blacks or African Americans (11.6%)
• Asians (4%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 2.2%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.9%)
• foreign students (0.2%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -2.1%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (510)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (530)
• 25th percentile SAT writing score (520)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (630)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (650)
• 75th percentile SAT writing score (640)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• average January temperature (32.6 degrees)
• dorm capacity (700)
• first-year applicants (4,174)
• foreign students (5)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• total 75th percentile SAT score (1,920)
• yearly for-credit students (2,212)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (0)
• students per faculty member (10)
• annual rainfall (49.9 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.02)
• elevation (18 meters)

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