bested Berklee College of Music ($16,950), Fordham ($15,374), UC Berkeley ($15,304), and UC Santa Cruz ($14,861).

Incidentally, all 5 offer a meal plan.

surpassed UC Merced ($14,272), UCLA ($14,232), Emerson College ($13,958), and Fisher College ($13,924), 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).
   

Pace Univ-New York is in New York, NY, is private and nonprofit, is in the Northeast 10 Conference, research intensive, has a law school, has a nursing major, offers on-campus housing, accepts the Common Application, requires test scores for undergrad admissions, its top major is accounting, is on the semester system, its top Masters major is finance, its top Doctoral major is law, its top Associates major is computer systems networking and telecommunications, and enrolls from 10,000 to 19,999 students.

• USNews law school ranking (134th place)
• PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (224th place)
• Webometrics world ranking (1,076th place)
• research spending ($1.6M)
• average full-time teaching salary ($102,076)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($36,614)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($36,614)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($24,183)
• cost of typical room and board ($14,800)
• endowment per full-time student ($10,495)
• average undergrad student loan ($7,273)
• research spending per student ($109)
• undergrads who get financial aid (99%)
• full-time retention rate (74%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (71%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (62.2%)
• in-state freshmen (52.9%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (47%)
• minorities (30.1%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 15.9%)
• Hispanics (12.3%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (11.6%)
• foreign students (10.9%)
• Blacks or African Americans (9.4%)
• Asians (8%)
• disabled students (4%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.4%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -13.7%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (480)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (470)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (580)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (570)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• dorm capacity (3,282)
• first-year applicants (11,778)
• foreign students (1,660)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• yearly for-credit students (15,160)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (0.0)
• students per faculty member (15)
• annual rainfall (46.1 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.28)
• elevation (4 meters)

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