beat Reformed Presbyterian Theological Seminary ($1,500), Selma Univ ($2,500), Central Yeshiva Tomchei Tmimim Lubavitz ($2,500), and W L Bonner College ($2,576), and others, ending with Berklee College of Music ($16,950).

2,772 out of the other 3,121 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for cost of typical room and board, e.g., Haskell Indian Nations Univ.

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).
   

Vermont College of Fine Arts is in Montpelier, VT, is private and nonprofit, degree-granting, offers on-campus housing, is on the semester system, its top Masters major is creative writing, and enrolls fewer than 1,000 students.

• endowment per full-time student ($1,269)
• cost of typical room and board ($1,197)
• research spending ($0.0K)
• research spending per student ($0.0)
• minorities (6.2%)
• grad students who are under 25 years old (5.1%)
• foreign students (2.9%)
• Asians (2%)
• Blacks or African Americans (2%)
• Hispanics (1.7%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.5%)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• average January temperature (15.8 degrees)
• dorm capacity (175)
• foreign students (12)
• full-time grad students (334)
• grad students (334)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• yearly for-credit students (410)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (4.88)
• annual rainfall (42.4 inches)
• elevation (163 meters)

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