after Widener Univ ($36,382, 520), closest are Curry College ($33,465, 500), Regis College ($33,060, 520), Mount St. Mary's College ($32,894, 510), and Long Island Univ-Brooklyn Campus ($32,818, 490), ending with U of Puerto Rico-Arecibo ($4,739, 307).

1 out of the other 271 colleges was ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees, i.e., West Virginia Univ Hospital Departments of Rad Tech and Nutrition.

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 SAT data is from the Institutional Characteristics Data File 2012-2013 (Provisional Release) as reported by the National Center for Education Statistics (http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds). Note that only about 41% of all colleges in this dataset reported at least one numeric SAT score.
   

Widener Univ is in Chester, PA, is private and nonprofit, is in the Middle Atlantic States Athletic Corporation, research intensive, has a nursing major, has its top Doctoral major in education, has its top major in nursing, offers on-campus housing, requires test scores for undergrad admissions, is on the semester system, its top Masters major is social work, its top Associates major is medical radiologic technology/science - radiation therapist, and enrolls from 1,000 to 4,999 students.

• PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (202nd place)
• research spending ($400K)
• average full-time teaching salary ($75,296)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($36,382)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($36,382)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($21,243)
• endowment per full-time student ($12,640)
• average undergrad student loan ($9,473)
• cost of a shared room ($6,300)
• research spending per student ($82)
• undergrads who get financial aid (98%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (88%)
• full-time retention rate (71%)
• undergrads among full-time students (66.9%)
• in-state freshmen (56.8%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (46.2%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (34%)
• minorities (23.4%)
• grad students who are under 25 years old (20.2%)
• Blacks or African Americans (16.5%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (14.3%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (14.3%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 12.8%)
• Hispanics (3.5%)
• Asians (3%)
• foreign students (2.4%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.4%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -11.4%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (450)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (440)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (550)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (520)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (7)
• average January temperature (33.5 degrees)
• dorm capacity (1,600)
• first-year applicants (5,336)
• foreign students (132)
• full-time grad students (749)
• full-time undergrads (2,707)
• grad students (1,563)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• undergrads (3,153)
• yearly for-credit students (5,402)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (1.23)
• students per faculty member (12)
• annual rainfall (39.3 inches)
• elevation (19 meters)

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