bested Landmark College ($49,793) and Columbia ($47,246).

Incidentally, all 3 are private and nonprofit.

surpassed Vassar ($46,270), Carnegie Mellon ($45,760), Trinity College ($45,730), and Wesleyan Univ ($45,628), and others, ending with Webb Inst. ($0).

365 out of the other 3,121 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees, e.g., High Point Univ.

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).
   

Sarah Lawrence College is in Bronxville, NY, is private and nonprofit, degree-granting, offers on-campus housing, accepts the Common Application, its top major is liberal arts and sciences/liberal studies, is on the semester system, its top Masters major is creative writing, and enrolls from 1,000 to 4,999 students.

• PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (425th place)
• average full-time teaching salary ($85,132)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($46,924)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($46,924)
• endowment per full-time student ($39,580)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($30,337)
• cost of a shared room ($9,324)
• average undergrad student loan ($5,448)
• research spending ($0.0K)
• research spending per student ($0.0)
• full-time retention rate (90%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (75.3%)
• undergrads who get financial aid (64%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (64%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (16%)
• minorities (15%)
• in-state freshmen (13.1%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (11.8%)
• Hispanics (7%)
• foreign students (6%)
• Asians (4.1%)
• disabled students (4%)
• Blacks or African Americans (3.8%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 2.5%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.1%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -2.5%)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• average January temperature (30.3 degrees)
• dorm capacity (1,035)
• first-year applicants (2,166)
• foreign students (110)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• yearly for-credit students (1,845)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (7.23)
• students per faculty member (10)
• annual rainfall (52.0 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.09)
• elevation (29 meters)

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