Luther College is first with $3,120.

Incidentally, both are in Iowa.

beat U of South Dakota ($3,433), Michigan State ($3,500), Cornell College ($3,700), and U of Utah ($3,719), and others, ending with NYU ($11,675).

49 out of the other 283 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for cost of a shared room, e.g., Wells College.

1. The Phi Beta Kappa chapters were determined in Feb 2014 at http://www.pbk.org.
   
2. 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).
   

Coe College is in Cedar Rapids, IA, is private and nonprofit, is in the Iowa Intercollegiate Athletic Conf, is of the Presbyterian Church - USA, degree-granting, accepts the Common Application, has a Phi Beta Kappa chapter, has a nursing major, has its top Masters major in education, has its top major in business, offers on-campus housing, requires test scores for undergrad admissions, is on the semester system, and enrolls from 1,000 to 4,999 students.

• USNews Liberal Arts College ranking (120th place)
• PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (603rd place)
• research spending ($300K)
• average full-time teaching salary ($64,925)
• endowment per full-time student ($57,859)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($34,220)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($34,220)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($23,109)
• average undergrad student loan ($7,569)
• cost of a shared room ($3,400)
• research spending per student ($187)
• undergrads who get financial aid (100%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (92%)
• full-time retention rate (81%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (53.6%)
• in-state freshmen (52.5%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (30%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (16.9%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 14.1%)
• disabled students (10%)
• minorities (8.4%)
• foreign students (3.5%)
• Asians (3.3%)
• Blacks or African Americans (2.8%)
• Hispanics (2.2%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.1%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -12.4%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (470)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (480)
• 25th percentile SAT writing score (473)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (650)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (610)
• 75th percentile SAT writing score (610)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (2)
• average January temperature (21.9 degrees)
• dorm capacity (1,187)
• first-year applicants (2,509)
• foreign students (53)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (2)
• total 75th percentile SAT score (1,870)
• yearly for-credit students (1,530)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (3.92)
• students per faculty member (11)
• annual rainfall (37.6 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.00)
• elevation (222 meters)

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