beat Potomac State College of West Virginia Univ ($3,178), Carolina Christian College ($4,150), Maple Springs Baptist Bible College and Seminary ($4,590), and Simmons College of Kentucky ($4,620), and others, ending with Carnegie Mellon ($45,760).

66 out of the other 627 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for in-state undergrad tuition & fees, e.g., West Virginia Univ Hospital Departments of Rad Tech and Nutrition.

1. Tuition and fees 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.
   

West Virginia Univ at Parkersburg is in Parkersburg, WV, is public, open admission, degree-granting, has an emergency medical technology program, its top major is general studies, is on the semester system, its top Associates major is general studies, and enrolls from 1,000 to 4,999 students.

• average full-time teaching salary ($48,381)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($8,856)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($4,228)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($2,496)
• endowment per full-time student ($2,194)
• average undergrad student loan ($1,619)
• research spending ($0.0K)
• research spending per student ($0.0)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (254.8%)
• in-state freshmen (84.2%)
• undergrads who get financial aid (83%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (73%)
• full-time retention rate (67%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (41.7%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (37%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (20.6%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, 3.9%)
• minorities (2.3%)
• Blacks or African Americans (1.7%)
• Asians (0.4%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.2%)
• foreign students (0%)
• Hispanics (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, -3.7%)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• average January temperature (32.1 degrees)
• foreign students (0)
• full-time undergrads (2,354)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• undergrads (3,824)
• yearly for-credit students (5,507)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (0)
• students per faculty member (18)
• annual rainfall (42.1 inches)
• elevation (234 meters)

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