beat Blue Mountain College ($4,000), Martin Luther College ($4,570), Calvary Bible College and Theological Seminary ($4,800), and Arlington Baptist College ($4,800), and others, ending with UChicago ($13,137).

651 out of the other 746 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for cost of typical room and board, e.g., Haskell Indian Nations Univ.

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.
   

Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary is in Kansas City, MO, is private and nonprofit, is Southern Baptist, grants doctorates, offers on-campus housing, has its top major in education, requires test scores for undergrad admissions, is on the semester system, its top Masters major is divinity/ministry, its top Doctoral major is theology/theological studies, its top Associates major is divinity/ministry, religious/sacred music, and Bible/biblical studies, and enrolls from 1,000 to 4,999 students.

• average full-time teaching salary ($48,160)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($7,032)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($7,032)
• average undergrad student loan ($5,274)
• endowment per full-time student ($4,963)
• cost of typical room and board ($3,938)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($3,057)
• research spending ($0.0K)
• research spending per student ($0.0)
• undergrads who get financial aid (92%)
• full-time retention rate (67%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (56%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (44%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (39%)
• in-state freshmen (38.7%)
• minorities (25.3%)
• Asians (15%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (12.7%)
• foreign students (9.1%)
• Blacks or African Americans (5.5%)
• Hispanics (3.8%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (1%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (430)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (415)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (590)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (580)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• average January temperature (31.0 degrees)
• dorm capacity (211)
• first-year applicants (40)
• foreign students (128)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• yearly for-credit students (1,407)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (1.9)
• students per faculty member (15)
• annual rainfall (39.1 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.00)
• elevation (273 meters)

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