surpassed Reformed Presbyterian Theological Seminary ($1,500).

26 out of the other 27 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for cost of typical room and board, e.g., Carnegie Mellon.

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.
   

Seton Hill Univ is in Greensburg, PA, is private and nonprofit, is in the West Virginia Intercollegiate Athletic Conf, is Roman Catholic, degree-granting, offers on-campus housing, accepts the Common Application, its top major is psychology, is on the semester system, its top Masters major is business administration and management and physician assistant, and enrolls from 1,000 to 4,999 students.

• average full-time teaching salary ($65,976)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($29,050)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($29,050)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($18,991)
• endowment per full-time student ($13,563)
• cost of typical room and board ($9,460)
• average undergrad student loan ($7,518)
• research spending ($0.0K)
• research spending per student ($0.0)
• undergrads who get financial aid (99%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (93%)
• undergrads among full-time students (82.3%)
• full-time retention rate (78%)
• in-state freshmen (77.2%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (63.7%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (41%)
• grad students who are under 25 years old (29.2%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (17.2%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 14.8%)
• minorities (10.4%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (9.1%)
• Blacks or African Americans (6.2%)
• disabled students (4%)
• Hispanics (3.2%)
• foreign students (1.7%)
• Asians (0.8%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.2%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -12.9%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (460)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (450)
• 25th percentile SAT writing score (440)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (560)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (560)
• 75th percentile SAT writing score (560)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• average January temperature (28.5 degrees)
• dorm capacity (750)
• first-year applicants (2,150)
• foreign students (53)
• full-time grad students (279)
• full-time undergrads (1,427)
• grad students (414)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• total 75th percentile SAT score (1,680)
• undergrads (1,925)
• yearly for-credit students (3,102)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (3.76)
• students per faculty member (14)
• annual rainfall (43.2 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.04)
• elevation (367 meters)

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