The Illinois Inst. of Art-Chicago is first with $12,897.

Incidentally, both are private and for-profit.

surpassed School of the Art Inst. of Chicago ($10,400), National U of Health Sciences ($10,170), Byzantine Catholic Seminary of Saints Cyril and Methodius ($10,000), and Rosalind Franklin U of Medicine and Science ($9,875), and others, ending with Telshe Yeshiva-Chicago ($0).

506 out of the other 967 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for cost of a shared room, e.g., Middle Tennessee School of Anesthesia Inc.

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.
   

The Illinois Inst. of Art-Schaumburg is in Schaumburg, IL, is private and for-profit, degree-granting, offers on-campus housing, its top major is graphic design, is on the quarter system, its top Associates major is graphic design, and enrolls from 1,000 to 4,999 students.

• average full-time teaching salary ($55,920)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($17,688)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($17,688)
• cost of a shared room ($10,704)
• average undergrad student loan ($7,928)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($6,438)
• endowment per full-time student ($0)
• in-state freshmen (96.8%)
• undergrads who get financial aid (96%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (91%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (59%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (54.7%)
• full-time retention rate (51%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (25.1%)
• minorities (21%)
• Hispanics (14%)
• Blacks or African Americans (4.1%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (3.8%)
• Asians (2.7%)
• foreign students (0.2%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.2%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 0%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, 0%)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• average January temperature (23.8 degrees)
• dorm capacity (114)
• first-year applicants (90)
• foreign students (3)
• full-time undergrads (947)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• undergrads (1,267)
• yearly for-credit students (1,970)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (0)
• students per faculty member (21)
• annual rainfall (36.9 inches)
• elevation (226 meters)

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