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What's exceptional about Southern California College of Optometry (scco) ?

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warm; within 25 miles

Southern California College of Optometry has the highest average January temperature (59.5 degrees) of the 78 colleges within 25 miles. Those 59.5 degrees compare to an average of 56.8 degrees across the 78 colleges.



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tied with Cal State-Fullerton, Hope International Univ, Western State Univ-College of Law-Argosy, and Westwood College-Anaheim, all with 59.5 degrees.

Incidentally, none of the 5 is a top-Green college.

beat U of the West (59.1 degrees), West Coast Univ-Orange County (58.4 degrees), Argosy Univ-Orange County (58.4 degrees), and Bristol Univ (58.4 degrees), and others, ending with UC Irvine (54.5 degrees).

11 out of the other 77 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for average January temperature, e.g., ITT Technical Institute-West Covina.

References

  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. Distance calculations between two colleges use a mathematical formula for the distance on a sphere between two points.

Profile

Southern California College of Optometry is in Fullerton, CA, is private and nonprofit, more than 50% Black, Hispanic, Asian, American Indian, or Alaska Native, grants doctorates, is on the quarter system, its top Doctoral major is optometry, and enrolls fewer than 1,000 students.

  • research spending ($800K)
  • average full-time teaching salary ($85,119)
  • endowment per full-time student ($14,782)
  • research spending per student ($1,944)
  • minorities (63.3%)
  • Asians (56.7%)
  • average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 17.5%)
  • Hispanics (5.7%)
  • foreign students (1.7%)
  • Blacks or African Americans (0.7%)
  • American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.2%)
  • average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -14.9%)
  • alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
  • average January temperature (59.5 degrees)
  • foreign students (7)
  • members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
  • men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
  • Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
  • yearly for-credit students (406)
  • on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (0.8)
  • annual rainfall (13.4 inches)
  • elevation (87 meters)

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