surpassed College of Charleston ($7,111), South Carolina State Univ ($6,000), Furman Univ ($5,704), and Wofford College ($5,460), and others, ending with Allen Univ ($1,850).

21 out of the other 46 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for cost of a shared room, e.g., Charleston School of Law.

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).
   

The Art Inst. of Charleston is in Charleston, SC, is private and for-profit, degree-granting, has a culinary program, offers on-campus housing, its top major is graphic design, is on the quarter system, its top Associates major is culinary arts/chef training and baking and pastry arts/baker/pastry chef, and enrolls fewer than 1,000 students.

• average full-time teaching salary ($44,632)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($17,796)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($17,796)
• cost of a shared room ($8,667)
• average undergrad student loan ($7,971)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($4,495)
• endowment per full-time student ($0)
• undergrads who get financial aid (97%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (90%)
• in-state freshmen (86.7%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (64%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (62.2%)
• full-time retention rate (43%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (27.4%)
• minorities (25.8%)
• Blacks or African Americans (19.3%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, 8.8%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (4.4%)
• Hispanics (4.2%)
• Asians (1.2%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (1.1%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• foreign students (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, -8.1%)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• average January temperature (49.7 degrees)
• dorm capacity (250)
• first-year applicants (150)
• foreign students (0)
• full-time undergrads (547)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• undergrads (627)
• yearly for-credit students (1,098)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (0)
• students per faculty member (14)
• annual rainfall (44.4 inches)
• elevation (5 meters)

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