outdone by Colorado Technical Univ-Colorado Springs (24.4 inches), Colorado Technical Univ-Online (24.4 inches), and Colorado School of Mines (22.8 inches).

Incidentally, none of the 4 is a top-Green college.

outdid Inst. of Taoist Education and Acupuncture (20.7 inches), Southwest Acupuncture College-Boulder (20.7 inches), Montessori Education Center of the Rockies (20.7 inches), and Naropa Univ (20.7 inches), and others, ending with Adams State Univ (9.0 inches).

9 out of the other 55 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for annual rainfall, e.g., American Sentinel 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. College geographic information is from the IPEDS Directory, 2012-13 (Provisional release) by the National Center for Education Statistics (http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds).
   

National American Univ-Colorado Springs is in Colorado Springs, CO, is private and for-profit, open admission, degree-granting, has a grooming arts program, has a nursing major, has its top major in business, is on the quarter system, its top Associates major is medical/clinical assistant, and enrolls fewer than 1,000 students.

• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($12,060)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($12,060)
• average undergrad student loan ($6,661)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($3,953)
• endowment per full-time student ($0)
• in-state freshmen (77.3%)
• undergrads who get financial aid (71%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (53%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (53%)
• full-time retention rate (46%)
• minorities (38.3%)
• Blacks or African Americans (22.1%)
• Hispanics (11.8%)
• Asians (3.3%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (3.2%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (1.1%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• foreign students (0%)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• average January temperature (28.4 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 (643)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (0)
• students per faculty member (18)
• annual rainfall (22.0 inches)
• elevation (1,984 meters)

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