closest are Ohio Christian Univ ($6,880, 1,500), Mid-Continent Univ ($6,900, 1,430), Texas A&M-Kingsville ($6,940, 1,478), and St. Thomas Univ ($7,140, 1,470), ending with Newbury College-Brookline ($12,520, 1,450).

53 out of the other 73 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for cost of typical room and board, e.g., U of Puerto Rico-Arecibo.

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. The total 75th-percentile SAT score is calculated as the sum of the math, reading, and writing 75th-percentile scores, using college SAT data from the Institutional Characteristics Data File 2012-2013 (Provisional Release) as reported by the National Center for Education Statistics (http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds). Note that only about 41% of all colleges in this dataset reported at least one numeric SAT score.
   

Central Baptist College is in Conway, AR, is private and nonprofit, is Baptist, degree-granting, offers on-campus housing, has its top major in a religious field, requires test scores for undergrad admissions, is on the semester system, its top Associates major is general studies, and enrolls fewer than 1,000 students.

• average full-time teaching salary ($42,780)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($12,530)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($12,530)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($9,022)
• cost of typical room and board ($6,300)
• average undergrad student loan ($5,543)
• endowment per full-time student ($2,666)
• research spending ($0.0K)
• research spending per student ($0.0)
• undergrads who get financial aid (99%)
• in-state freshmen (82.4%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (70%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (50%)
• full-time retention rate (50%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (42.2%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (25.9%)
• minorities (23.3%)
• Blacks or African Americans (19.5%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 6.8%)
• foreign students (3.2%)
• Hispanics (2.7%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.7%)
• Asians (0.4%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -6.3%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (400)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (410)
• 25th percentile SAT writing score (360)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (490)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (480)
• 75th percentile SAT writing score (530)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• average January temperature (38.4 degrees)
• dorm capacity (222)
• first-year applicants (280)
• foreign students (32)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• total 75th percentile SAT score (1,500)
• yearly for-credit students (996)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (0.3)
• students per faculty member (12)
• annual rainfall (49.1 inches)
• elevation (93 meters)

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