beat out by Yeshivath Beth Moshe ($1,488), Westminster Theological Seminary ($2,370), Baptist Bible College & Seminary of Pennsylvania ($2,500), and Lutheran Theological Seminary at Gettysburg ($2,850).

Incidentally, all 5 are private and nonprofit.

beat Thomas Jefferson Univ ($3,500), Saint Charles Borromeo Seminary-Overbrook ($4,010), Valley Forge Christian College ($4,050), and Waynesburg Univ ($4,170), and others, ending with Byzantine Catholic Seminary of Saints Cyril and Methodius ($10,000).

48 out of the other 165 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for cost of a shared room, e.g., U of Phoenix-Pittsburgh 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).
   

Lancaster Bible College is in Lancaster, PA, is private and nonprofit, grants doctorates, offers on-campus housing, has its top major in a religious field, requires test scores for undergrad admissions, is on the semester system, its top Masters major is theology and religious vocations, other, its top Associates major is Bible/biblical studies, and enrolls from 1,000 to 4,999 students.

• average full-time teaching salary ($52,224)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($17,740)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($17,740)
• endowment per full-time student ($11,067)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($8,739)
• average undergrad student loan ($6,549)
• cost of a shared room ($3,440)
• research spending ($0.0K)
• research spending per student ($0.0)
• undergrads who get financial aid (99%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (81%)
• full-time retention rate (74%)
• in-state freshmen (73%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (49.7%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (39%)
• minorities (13%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (12%)
• Blacks or African Americans (10%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 7.8%)
• Hispanics (2.2%)
• Asians (0.8%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• foreign students (0%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -7.2%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (430)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (450)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (560)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (550)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• average January temperature (30.1 degrees)
• dorm capacity (433)
• first-year applicants (598)
• foreign students (0)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• yearly for-credit students (1,404)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (2.14)
• students per faculty member (15)
• annual rainfall (42.8 inches)
• elevation (114 meters)

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