Rosemont College is first with $11,900.

Incidentally, both have their top major in business.

surpassed Ohio State Univ ($11,182), Marymount Univ ($11,000), Randolph College ($10,790), and Ursinus College ($10,750), and others, ending with Reformed Presbyterian Theological Seminary ($1,500).

507 out of the other 553 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.
   

Sweet Briar College is in Sweet Briar, VA, is private and nonprofit, degree-granting, accepts the Common Application, has a Phi Beta Kappa chapter, has its top Masters major in education, has its top major in business, offers on-campus housing, requires test scores for undergrad admissions, is on the semester system, and enrolls fewer than 1,000 students.

• USNews Liberal Arts College ranking (110th place)
• research spending ($600K)
• endowment per full-time student ($129,748)
• average full-time teaching salary ($62,021)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($32,325)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($32,325)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($20,107)
• cost of typical room and board ($11,440)
• average undergrad student loan ($7,292)
• research spending per student ($648)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (100%)
• undergrads who get financial aid (100%)
• undergrads among full-time students (97.8%)
• full-time retention rate (74%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (70%)
• grad students who are under 25 years old (68.8%)
• in-state freshmen (44.3%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (32%)
• minorities (14.8%)
• disabled students (11%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (10.2%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 7.4%)
• Hispanics (6.1%)
• Blacks or African Americans (6.1%)
• foreign students (3.7%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (2.8%)
• Asians (1.8%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.8%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -6.9%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (450)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (490)
• 25th percentile SAT writing score (460)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (570)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (610)
• 75th percentile SAT writing score (590)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• average January temperature (36.1 degrees)
• dorm capacity (625)
• first-year applicants (763)
• foreign students (34)
• full-time grad students (13)
• full-time undergrads (695)
• grad students (16)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• total 75th percentile SAT score (1,770)
• undergrads (723)
• yearly for-credit students (912)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (2.19)
• students per faculty member (8)
• annual rainfall (44.2 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.03)
• elevation (242 meters)

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