outdone by Roseman U of Health Sciences (4.2 inches), Touro Univ Nevada (4.2 inches), and Nevada State College (5.7 inches).

tied with Grand Canyon Univ (8.2 inches).

Incidentally, all 5 are in a large city.

outdid U of Texas at El Paso (9.7 inches), United States Univ (9.8 inches), Great Basin College (9.9 inches), and Chamberlain College of Nursing-Arizona (10.8 inches), and others, ending with Centro de Estudios Multidisciplinarios-Humacao (107.1 inches).

21 out of the other 338 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for annual rainfall, e.g., Western Governors Univ.

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. Information on majors and programs of study is from the Completions Data File, 2011-12 (Provisional release) as reported by the National Center for Education Statistics (http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds). Top majors are the ones that have the most conferred degrees. If it says "is in" rather than just "is", then various top majors were combined into a new attribute. For example, colleges whose top major is "in engineering" will include a college whose top major is chemical engineering, another whose top major is electrical engineering, and so on.
   

Brookline College-Phoenix is in Phoenix, AZ, is private and for-profit, open admission, degree-granting, has a massaging or bodywork program, has a nursing major, has its top major in nursing, is on a continuous calendar, its top Associates major is health/health care administration/management and criminal justice/police science, and enrolls from 1,000 to 4,999 students.

• average full-time teaching salary ($49,548)
• average undergrad student loan ($10,890)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($5,397)
• endowment per full-time student ($0)
• undergrads who get financial aid (91%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (87%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (83%)
• in-state freshmen (77.1%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, 47.5%)
• minorities (45.8%)
• full-time retention rate (32%)
• Hispanics (27.1%)
• Blacks or African Americans (13.1%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (4.3%)
• Asians (1.3%)
• foreign students (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, -32.2%)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• average January temperature (57.1 degrees)
• foreign students (0)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• yearly for-credit students (2,442)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (0)
• students per faculty member (30)
• annual rainfall (8.2 inches)
• elevation (355 meters)

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