beat Talmudical Inst. of Upstate New York (0%), Bais Medrash Elyon (0%), Bais HaMedrash and Mesivta of Baltimore (4.5%), and Yeshiva Toras Chaim (5.8%), and others, ending with Uta Mesivta of Kiryas Joel (54.5%).

1 out of the other 48 colleges was ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for tuition & fees increase over three years, i.e., Beth Medrash Govoha.

1. 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.
   
2. The tuition & fees increase over the last three years refers to the 2009-10 and 2012-13 periods from the Institutional Characteristics Data File 2012-2013 (Provisional Release) as reported by the National Center for Education Statistics (http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds).
   

Beis Medrash Heichal Dovid is in Far Rockaway, NY, is private and nonprofit, is Jewish, grants doctorates, offers on-campus housing, has its top major in a religious field, is on the semester system, its top Doctoral major is Talmudic studies, and enrolls fewer than 1,000 students.

• average full-time teaching salary ($50,552)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($7,500)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($7,500)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($6,251)
• cost of a shared room ($4,500)
• endowment per full-time student ($0)
• research spending ($0.0K)
• research spending per student ($0.0)
• in-state freshmen (85.4%)
• full-time retention rate (73%)
• undergrads who get financial aid (44%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (24%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (0%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• foreign students (0%)
• Hispanics (0%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0%)
• Asians (0%)
• Blacks or African Americans (0%)
• minorities (0%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (0%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (-11.2%)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• average January temperature (32.7 degrees)
• dorm capacity (150)
• first-year applicants (41)
• foreign students (0)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• yearly for-credit students (139)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (0)
• students per faculty member (31)
• annual rainfall (42.8 inches)
• elevation (5 meters)

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