surpassed Charleston Southern Univ ($8,400), North Greenville Univ ($8,164), Benedict College ($8,104), and Clemson Univ ($7,914), and others, ending with W L Bonner College ($2,576).

38 out of the other 46 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for cost of typical room and board, e.g., Furman 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. College geographic information is from the IPEDS Directory, 2012-13 (Provisional release) by the National Center for Education Statistics (http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds).
   

Converse College is in Spartanburg, SC, is private and nonprofit, degree-granting, offers on-campus housing, accepts the Common Application, has its top Masters major in education, requires test scores for undergrad admissions, its top major is psychology, is on a four-one-four calendar, and enrolls from 1,000 to 4,999 students.

• research spending ($100K)
• endowment per full-time student ($52,382)
• average full-time teaching salary ($50,334)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($28,276)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($28,276)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($21,960)
• cost of typical room and board ($8,854)
• average undergrad student loan ($8,038)
• research spending per student ($17)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (100%)
• undergrads who get financial aid (100%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (96%)
• full-time retention rate (74%)
• in-state freshmen (67.7%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (48%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (12.1%)
• minorities (12%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 9.4%)
• Blacks or African Americans (8.7%)
• disabled students (4%)
• Hispanics (1.7%)
• Asians (0.9%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.7%)
• foreign students (0.3%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -8.6%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (460)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (470)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (570)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (600)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• average January temperature (42.0 degrees)
• dorm capacity (496)
• first-year applicants (1,383)
• foreign students (11)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• yearly for-credit students (3,934)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (1.95)
• students per faculty member (11)
• annual rainfall (48.4 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.01)
• elevation (217 meters)

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