bested U of North Dakota ($3,673) and Brigham Young-Provo ($4,300).

Incidentally, none of the 3 provides a complete course of study during weekends or evenings.

trailed Florida State Univ ($4,615), Widener Univ-Delaware Campus ($4,625), Washburn Univ ($4,756), and U of Puerto Rico-Rio Piedras ($5,087), and others, ending with Harvard ($41,555).

37 out of the other 193 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for average grant aid to undergrads, e.g., Taft Univ System.

1. The data on undergrad loans, financial aid, and Pell grants are from the Student Financial Aid Data File, 2011-12 (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.
   

U of South Dakota is in Vermillion, SD, is public, is in the Missouri Valley Conference, research intensive, a top-100 party school, has a Phi Beta Kappa chapter, has a law school, has its top Associates major in nursing, offers a Doctor of Medicine degree, offers on-campus housing, 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, its top Doctoral major is law, and enrolls from 10,000 to 19,999 students.

• Forbes Best Buy ranking (79th place)
• PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (683rd place)
• Webometrics world ranking (1,055th place)
• research spending ($17.6M)
• average full-time teaching salary ($63,143)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($9,650)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($7,704)
• average undergrad student loan ($6,391)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($4,439)
• cost of a shared room ($3,433)
• research spending per student ($1,325)
• endowment per full-time student ($0)
• undergrads who get financial aid (93%)
• full-time retention rate (75%)
• undergrads among full-time students (74.8%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (73%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (62.8%)
• in-state freshmen (61.3%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (31%)
• grad students who are under 25 years old (26.3%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (25.3%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (24.9%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (23.1%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 19.3%)
• minorities (7.1%)
• Hispanics (2.2%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (2%)
• Blacks or African Americans (1.8%)
• foreign students (1.5%)
• Asians (1.1%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -16.2%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (460)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (460)
• 25th percentile SAT writing score (460)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (620)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (610)
• 75th percentile SAT writing score (600)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (23)
• average January temperature (20.9 degrees)
• dorm capacity (2,209)
• first-year applicants (3,443)
• foreign students (197)
• full-time grad students (1,281)
• full-time undergrads (4,629)
• grad students (2,594)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (9)
• total 75th percentile SAT score (1,830)
• undergrads (7,690)
• yearly for-credit students (13,263)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (0.4)
• students per faculty member (17)
• annual rainfall (27.6 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.04)
• elevation (376 meters)

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