bested Duke ($43,623), Wake Forest ($43,200), Davidson College ($40,809), and Guilford College ($31,380).

Incidentally, all 5 are private and nonprofit.

surpassed Elon Univ ($28,980), U of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ($28,445), Warren Wilson College ($27,740), and Lenoir-Rhyne Univ ($27,718), and others, ending with Grace College of Divinity ($3,440).

6 out of the other 80 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).
   
2. College geographic information is from the IPEDS Directory, 2012-13 (Provisional release) by the National Center for Education Statistics (http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds).
   

Meredith College is in Raleigh, NC, is private and nonprofit, degree-granting, offers on-campus housing, accepts the Common Application, requires test scores for undergrad admissions, its top major is psychology, is on the semester system, its top Masters major is business administration and management, and enrolls from 1,000 to 4,999 students.

• PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (872nd place)
• average full-time teaching salary ($62,104)
• endowment per full-time student ($40,707)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($29,186)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($29,186)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($14,549)
• average undergrad student loan ($7,408)
• cost of a shared room ($4,174)
• research spending ($0.0K)
• research spending per student ($0.0)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (100%)
• undergrads who get financial aid (100%)
• in-state freshmen (87.5%)
• full-time retention rate (71%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (69%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (33%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (19.2%)
• minorities (17.9%)
• Blacks or African Americans (11.9%)
• Hispanics (2.9%)
• Asians (2.7%)
• foreign students (2.3%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 1.4%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.4%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -1.4%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (460)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (450)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (560)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (560)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• average January temperature (40.5 degrees)
• dorm capacity (952)
• first-year applicants (1,719)
• foreign students (50)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• yearly for-credit students (2,183)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (0.3)
• students per faculty member (12)
• annual rainfall (46.0 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.01)
• elevation (143 meters)

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