after The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary ($5,200, 0.13), closest are Waldorf College ($6,688, 0.18), U of Minnesota-Duluth ($6,732, 0.14), Missouri State Univ-Springfield ($6,844, 0.33), and Brigham Young-Provo ($7,200, 0.17), ending with Berklee College of Music ($16,950, 11.48).

259 out of the other 314 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for cost of typical room and board, e.g., Oglala Lakota College.

1. To measure how prominent are diversity and inclusion on a college's website, we divided the number of hits on a search query for those two words by the number of hits on a search for the query excellence OR achievement, both queries using the Google API. If the latter query does not report at least 100 hits, then the value entered is N/A. The data were collected in February 2014.
   
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).
   

The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary is in Louisville, KY, is private and nonprofit, is Southern Baptist, grants doctorates, offers on-campus housing, has its top major in a religious field, is on a four-one-four calendar, its top Masters major is divinity/ministry, its top Doctoral major is theology/theological studies, its top Associates major is theology/theological studies, and enrolls from 1,000 to 4,999 students.

• average full-time teaching salary ($59,261)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($14,774)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($14,774)
• average undergrad student loan ($9,117)
• cost of typical room and board ($5,200)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($2,586)
• research spending ($0.0K)
• research spending per student ($0.0)
• full-time retention rate (82%)
• undergrads who get financial aid (69%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (45.8%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (41%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 30.6%)
• in-state freshmen (29.8%)
• minorities (12.9%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (12%)
• Asians (6.6%)
• Blacks or African Americans (3.4%)
• Hispanics (2.3%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.6%)
• foreign students (0.5%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -23.4%)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• average January temperature (34.5 degrees)
• dorm capacity (704)
• first-year applicants (261)
• foreign students (21)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• yearly for-credit students (4,317)
• students per faculty member (26)
• annual rainfall (45.5 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.13)
• elevation (155 meters)

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