closest are U of Phoenix-Southern Arizona Campus (779 meters, 51.7 degrees), Brookline College-Tucson (786 meters, 51.7 degrees), U of Texas of the Permian Basin (886 meters, 45.1 degrees), and U of Texas at El Paso (1,183 meters, 45.1 degrees), ending with Western State Colorado Univ (2,354 meters, 9.1 degrees).

16 colleges were ruled out due to 13 missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for average January temperature alone and 3 for both it and elevation together.

1. Elevations are calculated by http://www.GPSVisualizer.com from the latitude and longitude from the IPEDS Directory, 2012-13 (Provisional release) by the National Center for Education Statistics (http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds).
   
2. 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).
   

Brown Mackie College-Tucson is in Tucson, AZ, is private and for-profit, open admission, degree-granting, more than 50% Black, Hispanic, Asian, American Indian, or Alaska Native, has its top major in criminal justice, is on the quarter system, its top Associates major is biomedical technology/technician, and enrolls fewer than 1,000 students.

• average full-time teaching salary ($43,088)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($13,104)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($13,104)
• average undergrad student loan ($7,238)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($4,993)
• endowment per full-time student ($0)
• undergrads who get financial aid (98%)
• in-state freshmen (96.7%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (88%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (84%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (62.9%)
• minorities (58.7%)
• Hispanics (40.7%)
• full-time retention rate (33%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (32.5%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 16.5%)
• Blacks or African Americans (10.4%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (6.4%)
• Asians (1.2%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• foreign students (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -14.1%)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• average January temperature (53.3 degrees)
• foreign students (0)
• full-time undergrads (784)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• undergrads (784)
• yearly for-credit students (1,244)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (0)
• students per faculty member (10)
• annual rainfall (11.6 inches)
• elevation (756 meters)

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