beat Southeastern Baptist College ($1,600), Concordia College Alabama ($1,730), William Carey Univ ($1,800), and Tennessee Temple ($2,000), and others, ending with South Univ-Savannah ($9,105).

137 out of the other 257 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for cost of a shared room, e.g., U of Phoenix-Chattanooga Campus.

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. Distance calculations between two colleges use a mathematical formula for the distance on a sphere between two points.
   

Chipola College is in Marianna, FL, is public, open admission, degree-granting, has a culinary program, has a grooming arts program, has a nursing major, has an emergency medical technology program, has its top major in nursing, offers on-campus housing, is on the semester system, its top Associates major is liberal arts and sciences/liberal studies, and enrolls from 1,000 to 4,999 students.

• average full-time teaching salary ($48,644)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($8,950)
• endowment per full-time student ($8,077)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($5,112)
• average undergrad student loan ($3,650)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($3,120)
• cost of a shared room ($1,450)
• research spending ($0.0K)
• research spending per student ($0.0)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (186.9%)
• undergrads who get financial aid (94%)
• in-state freshmen (89.8%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (58%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (25.7%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (20.7%)
• minorities (20.6%)
• Blacks or African Americans (17.1%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (4%)
• Hispanics (1.9%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 1.2%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.8%)
• Asians (0.8%)
• foreign students (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -1.2%)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• average January temperature (50.3 degrees)
• dorm capacity (86)
• foreign students (0)
• full-time undergrads (948)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• undergrads (2,244)
• yearly for-credit students (2,997)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (1.45)
• students per faculty member (19)
• annual rainfall (53.6 inches)
• elevation (37 meters)

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