tied with Heritage Christian Univ (39.4 degrees).

Incidentally, both are in a small city.

trailed Athens State Univ (40.2 degrees), ITT Technical Institute-Madison (41.5 degrees), Huntsville Bible College (41.5 degrees), and Virginia College-Huntsville (41.5 degrees), and others, ending with U of Mobile (50.4 degrees).

8 out of the other 43 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for average January temperature, e.g., Auburn Univ at Montgomery.

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 North Alabama is in Florence, AL, is public, degree-granting, has a nursing major, has its top major in nursing, offers on-campus housing, requires test scores for undergrad admissions, is on the semester system, its top Masters major is business administration and management, and enrolls from 5,000 to 9,999 students.

• PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (801st place)
• research spending ($100K)
• average full-time teaching salary ($65,868)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($11,856)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($6,528)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($4,719)
• average undergrad student loan ($4,393)
• endowment per full-time student ($3,946)
• cost of a shared room ($2,862)
• research spending per student ($7)
• undergrads who get financial aid (87%)
• undergrads among full-time students (86.7%)
• in-state freshmen (86.7%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (81.6%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (74%)
• full-time retention rate (69%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (61%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (56.6%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (32.9%)
• minorities (18.2%)
• grad students who are under 25 years old (17.8%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (16.3%)
• Blacks or African Americans (12.2%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 11.9%)
• foreign students (4.8%)
• Asians (3.4%)
• Hispanics (1.7%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.9%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -10.6%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (440)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (435)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (535)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (550)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (23)
• average January temperature (39.4 degrees)
• dorm capacity (1,200)
• first-year applicants (2,419)
• foreign students (417)
• full-time grad students (292)
• full-time undergrads (4,942)
• grad students (934)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• undergrads (6,098)
• yearly for-credit students (8,631)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (1.12)
• students per faculty member (21)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.03)
• elevation (171 meters)

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