bested U of Florida (362.6%) and Florida State College at Jacksonville (360.1%).

Incidentally, all 3 are in Florida.

surpassed Lake-Sumter Community College (321.6%), Florida Gulf Coast Univ (313.8%), U of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center (311.5%), and Pensacola State College (302.2%), and others, ending with Amridge Univ (0%).

366 out of the other 3,121 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for non-resident tuition & fees surcharge, e.g., Excelsior 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).
   

New College of Florida is in Sarasota, FL, is public, degree-granting, offers on-campus housing, accepts the Common Application, requires test scores for undergrad admissions, its top major is liberal arts and sciences, general studies and humanities, other, is on a four-one-four calendar, and enrolls fewer than 1,000 students.

• Forbes Best Buy ranking (15th place)
• Wall St. Journal feeder school ranking (31st place)
• USNews Liberal Arts College ranking (89th place)
• research spending ($500K)
• average full-time teaching salary ($67,786)
• endowment per full-time student ($36,198)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($29,812)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($9,003)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($6,783)
• cost of a shared room ($5,901)
• average undergrad student loan ($3,913)
• research spending per student ($552)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (339.5%)
• undergrads who get financial aid (100%)
• full-time retention rate (83%)
• in-state freshmen (79.8%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (59.2%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (39%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (30%)
• minorities (18.1%)
• Hispanics (13.1%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (13%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 9%)
• disabled students (4%)
• Asians (2.9%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (1.6%)
• Blacks or African Americans (1.6%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.5%)
• foreign students (0.1%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -8.3%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (570)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (620)
• 25th percentile SAT writing score (590)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (670)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (740)
• 75th percentile SAT writing score (690)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• average January temperature (61.4 degrees)
• dorm capacity (636)
• first-year applicants (1,348)
• foreign students (1)
• full-time undergrads (832)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (1)
• total 75th percentile SAT score (2,100)
• undergrads (832)
• yearly for-credit students (868)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (6.53)
• students per faculty member (10)
• annual rainfall (53.0 inches)
• elevation (3 meters)

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