surpassed Spelman College ($11,541), The Art Inst. of Atlanta ($11,000), Brenau Univ ($10,884), and Oglethorpe Univ ($10,840), and others, ending with Selma Univ ($2,500).

288 out of the other 334 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for cost of typical room and board, e.g., Wake Forest.

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.
   

Life Univ is in Marietta, GA, is private and nonprofit, has a hospital, grants doctorates, offers on-campus housing, requires test scores for undergrad admissions, its top major is biology/biological sciences, is on the quarter system, its top Masters major is health professions and related clinical sciences, other, its top Doctoral major is chiropractic, its top Associates major is health professions and related clinical sciences, other, and enrolls from 1,000 to 4,999 students.

• average full-time teaching salary ($64,191)
• cost of typical room and board ($12,480)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($9,214)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($9,214)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($6,833)
• average undergrad student loan ($6,248)
• research spending per student ($4)
• endowment per full-time student ($0)
• research spending ($0.0K)
• undergrads who get financial aid (89%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (77%)
• full-time retention rate (59%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (57%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (48.3%)
• minorities (37.9%)
• in-state freshmen (25.6%)
• Blacks or African Americans (24.8%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (9.1%)
• Hispanics (7.9%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 6.5%)
• Asians (4.4%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.8%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• foreign students (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -6.1%)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• average January temperature (41.5 degrees)
• dorm capacity (300)
• first-year applicants (645)
• 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 (3,045)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (0.8)
• students per faculty member (16)
• annual rainfall (55.1 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.01)
• elevation (302 meters)

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