after Marlboro College ($37,640, 68%), closest are San Francisco Art Inst. ($36,618, 63%), Long Island Univ-C W Post Campus ($32,862, 68%), Long Island Univ-Brooklyn Campus ($32,818, 61%), and Cornish College of the Arts ($32,380, 66%), ending with Turtle Mountain Community College ($2,250, 38%).

8 out of the other 1,028 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees, e.g., Fremont College.

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. Student retention data are from the file total entering class, retention rates, and student-to-faculty ratio: Fall 2012 (Provisional release) as reported by the National Center for Education Statistics (http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds).
   

Marlboro College is in Marlboro, VT, is private and nonprofit, degree-granting, offers on-campus housing, accepts the Common Application, its top major is philosophy, is on the semester system, and enrolls fewer than 1,000 students.

• endowment per full-time student ($107,033)
• average full-time teaching salary ($56,112)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($37,640)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($37,640)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($21,253)
• average undergrad student loan ($8,114)
• cost of a shared room ($5,470)
• research spending ($0.0K)
• research spending per student ($0.0)
• undergrads who get financial aid (98%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (77%)
• full-time retention rate (68%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (44.9%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (29%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (11.8%)
• in-state freshmen (8%)
• disabled students (7%)
• minorities (6.2%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (6.1%)
• Asians (3.1%)
• Hispanics (1.7%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 1.2%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.7%)
• Blacks or African Americans (0.7%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• foreign students (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -1.2%)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• dorm capacity (227)
• first-year applicants (256)
• foreign students (0)
• full-time undergrads (244)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• undergrads (294)
• yearly for-credit students (292)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (0)
• students per faculty member (6)
• annual rainfall (51.2 inches)
• elevation (475 meters)

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