beat out by U of Minnesota-Duluth ($6,732), Hastings College ($7,100), and Simpson Univ ($7,500).

Incidentally, none of the 4 has a Phi Beta Kappa chapter.

beat U of Idaho ($7,682), Drury Univ ($7,700), Davis & Elkins College ($8,350), and Wesleyan College ($8,400), and others, ending with UC Santa Cruz ($14,861).

153 out of the other 178 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for cost of typical room and board, e.g., Victory Univ.

1. The costs of room and board 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. 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.
   

Lyon College is in Batesville, AR, is private and nonprofit, is of the Presbyterian Church - USA, degree-granting, offers on-campus housing, requires test scores for undergrad admissions, its top major is psychology, is on the semester system, and enrolls fewer than 1,000 students.

• USNews Liberal Arts College ranking (167th place)
• endowment per full-time student ($79,770)
• average full-time teaching salary ($57,730)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($23,594)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($23,594)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($18,777)
• cost of typical room and board ($7,560)
• average undergrad student loan ($5,396)
• research spending ($0.0K)
• research spending per student ($0.0)
• undergrads who get financial aid (100%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (78%)
• in-state freshmen (75%)
• full-time retention rate (72%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (51.3%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (49%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (18.2%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 11.9%)
• minorities (10.7%)
• Hispanics (4.4%)
• Blacks or African Americans (4.1%)
• foreign students (2.7%)
• Asians (1.6%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.6%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -10.6%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (510)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (490)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (610)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (650)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• average January temperature (36.9 degrees)
• dorm capacity (467)
• first-year applicants (971)
• foreign students (17)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• yearly for-credit students (634)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (5.78)
• students per faculty member (13)
• annual rainfall (48.7 inches)
• elevation (125 meters)

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