closest are U of South Alabama (66.2 inches), Northwest Florida State College (71.0 inches), Columbia Southern Univ (67.3 inches), and Dillard Univ (66.6 inches), ending with American Samoa Community College (213.9 inches).

125 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for annual rainfall.

1. Weather data comes from NOAA'S 1981-2010 Climate Normals data files at NOAA's National Climatic Data Center, using the closest weather station to each college, as determined by distance calculations using the latitude and longitude of the weather station and of the college, as listed in the IPEDS directory (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).
   

U of Mobile is in Mobile, AL, is private and nonprofit, is Southern Baptist, degree-granting, has a nursing major, has its top Associates major in nursing, has its top Masters major in education, has its top major in business, offers on-campus housing, requires test scores for undergrad admissions, is on the semester system, and enrolls from 1,000 to 4,999 students.

• average full-time teaching salary ($44,281)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($18,080)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($18,080)
• endowment per full-time student ($11,639)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($11,519)
• average undergrad student loan ($5,931)
• cost of a shared room ($4,600)
• research spending ($0.0K)
• research spending per student ($0.0)
• undergrads who get financial aid (98%)
• full-time retention rate (73%)
• in-state freshmen (71.7%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (64%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (62.6%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (39%)
• minorities (33.2%)
• Blacks or African Americans (29.7%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (20.5%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 15.8%)
• foreign students (2.6%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (1.7%)
• Hispanics (1%)
• Asians (0.8%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -13.6%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (470)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (437)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (690)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (608)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• average January temperature (50.4 degrees)
• dorm capacity (610)
• first-year applicants (789)
• foreign students (52)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• yearly for-credit students (2,034)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (0.2)
• students per faculty member (12)
• annual rainfall (66.2 inches)
• elevation (8 meters)

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