beat The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary ($5,200), Bob Jones Univ ($5,430), Bryan College-Dayton ($5,950), and Art Academy of Cincinnati ($6,000), and others, ending with Life Univ ($12,480).

443 out of the other 507 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for cost of typical room and board, e.g., Huntsville Bible College.

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.
   

Asbury Theological Seminary is in Wilmore, KY, is private and nonprofit, is Interdenominational, grants doctorates, offers on-campus housing, is on a four-one-four calendar, its top Masters major is divinity/ministry, its top Doctoral major is divinity/ministry, and enrolls from 1,000 to 4,999 students.

• endowment per full-time student ($117,699)
• average full-time teaching salary ($67,767)
• cost of typical room and board ($3,150)
• research spending ($0.0K)
• research spending per student ($0.0)
• minorities (13.2%)
• Blacks or African Americans (6.1%)
• foreign students (5.8%)
• Hispanics (3.2%)
• Asians (3.2%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 2.7%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.7%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -2.6%)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• dorm capacity (265)
• foreign students (105)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• yearly for-credit students (1,823)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (3.11)
• annual rainfall (47.9 inches)
• elevation (269 meters)

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