Liberty Univ is first with $7,250.

Incidentally, both are religiously affiliated.

beat Ferrum College ($9,130), Shenandoah Univ ($9,240), Randolph College ($10,790), and Marymount Univ ($11,000), and others.

77 out of the other 83 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for cost of typical room and board, e.g., Sentara College of Health Sciences.

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).
   

Virginia Wesleyan College is in Norfolk, VA, is private and nonprofit, is United Methodist, degree-granting, offers on-campus housing, has its top major in business, requires test scores for undergrad admissions, is on a four-one-four calendar, and enrolls from 1,000 to 4,999 students.

• USNews Liberal Arts College ranking (176th place)
• average full-time teaching salary ($64,583)
• endowment per full-time student ($34,669)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($30,998)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($30,998)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($17,106)
• cost of typical room and board ($8,188)
• average undergrad student loan ($8,078)
• research spending ($0.0K)
• research spending per student ($0.0)
• undergrads who get financial aid (98%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (81%)
• in-state freshmen (70.3%)
• full-time retention rate (67%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (61.6%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (41%)
• minorities (29.8%)
• Blacks or African Americans (22.5%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (16.3%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (12.8%)
• disabled students (9%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 7.2%)
• Hispanics (5.9%)
• Asians (1.2%)
• foreign students (0.4%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.2%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -6.7%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (440)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (450)
• 25th percentile SAT writing score (440)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (550)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (560)
• 75th percentile SAT writing score (540)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• average January temperature (40.4 degrees)
• dorm capacity (854)
• first-year applicants (3,879)
• foreign students (6)
• full-time undergrads (1,288)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• total 75th percentile SAT score (1,650)
• undergrads (1,431)
• yearly for-credit students (1,514)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (0.4)
• students per faculty member (12)
• annual rainfall (46.5 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.13)
• elevation (4 meters)

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