Ozark Christian College is first with $2,180.

Incidentally, both have their top major in a religious field.

beat Lincoln Univ ($2,626), College of the Ozarks ($2,900), Forest Inst. of Professional Psychology ($3,060), and Southwest Baptist Univ ($3,150), and others, ending with Washington Univ in St Louis ($9,162).

54 out of the other 94 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for cost of a shared room, e.g., U of Phoenix-Springfield 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. College geographic information is from the IPEDS Directory, 2012-13 (Provisional release) by the National Center for Education Statistics (http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds).
   

Central Bible College is in Springfield, MO, is private and nonprofit, is of the Assemblies of God Church, degree-granting, offers on-campus housing, has its top major in a religious field, requires test scores for undergrad admissions, is on the semester system, and enrolls fewer than 1,000 students.

• average full-time teaching salary ($45,916)
• endowment per full-time student ($18,883)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($12,412)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($12,412)
• average undergrad student loan ($8,469)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($5,721)
• cost of a shared room ($2,572)
• research spending ($0.0K)
• research spending per student ($0.0)
• undergrads who get financial aid (89%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (87%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (82%)
• full-time retention rate (56%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (42.9%)
• in-state freshmen (40.8%)
• minorities (12%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 9.8%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (8.3%)
• Hispanics (5.2%)
• Blacks or African Americans (4.8%)
• Asians (1.4%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.6%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• foreign students (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -8.9%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (510)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (508)
• 25th percentile SAT writing score (520)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (620)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (650)
• 75th percentile SAT writing score (630)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• average January temperature (32.6 degrees)
• dorm capacity (663)
• first-year applicants (125)
• foreign students (0)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• total 75th percentile SAT score (1,900)
• yearly for-credit students (725)
• students per faculty member (14)
• annual rainfall (45.6 inches)
• elevation (385 meters)

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