bested Northeastern Univ ($39,736), Elmira College ($38,150), St. John's Univ-New York ($35,765), and Assumption College ($33,805).

Incidentally, all 5 are private and nonprofit.

surpassed Nichols College ($31,740), Saint Joseph's College of Maine ($30,030), Franklin Pierce Univ ($29,950), and Alaska Pacific Univ ($29,810), and others, ending with Sinte Gleska Univ ($3,154).

1 out of the other 134 colleges was ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees, i.e., Elizabethtown College School of Continuing and Professional Studies.

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. 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.
   

Delaware Valley College is in Doylestown, PA, is private and nonprofit, is in the Middle Atlantic States Athletic Corporation, degree-granting, has a culinary program, has its top Associates major in business, has its top major in business, offers on-campus housing, requires test scores for undergrad admissions, 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 (582nd place)
• research spending ($900K)
• average full-time teaching salary ($63,433)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($31,746)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($31,746)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($17,887)
• endowment per full-time student ($14,777)
• average undergrad student loan ($10,324)
• cost of a shared room ($5,106)
• research spending per student ($351)
• undergrads who get financial aid (99%)
• undergrads among full-time students (88.2%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (81%)
• full-time retention rate (74%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (59.4%)
• in-state freshmen (51.8%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (32%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (14.4%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 12.2%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (11.9%)
• grad students who are under 25 years old (7.7%)
• minorities (7.6%)
• disabled students (5%)
• Blacks or African Americans (4.1%)
• Hispanics (2.6%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.5%)
• Asians (0.4%)
• foreign students (0.1%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -10.9%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (440)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (430)
• 25th percentile SAT writing score (410)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (560)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (550)
• 75th percentile SAT writing score (530)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (2)
• dorm capacity (1,064)
• first-year applicants (1,776)
• foreign students (3)
• full-time grad students (113)
• full-time undergrads (1,723)
• grad students (260)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• total 75th percentile SAT score (1,640)
• undergrads (1,945)
• yearly for-credit students (2,634)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (2.53)
• students per faculty member (15)
• annual rainfall (47.9 inches)
• elevation (97 meters)

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