tied with Central Connecticut State Univ (58.5 inches) and U of Saint Joseph (58.5 inches).

Incidentally, none of the 3 is research intensive.

outdid College of the Atlantic (56.7 inches), U of Phoenix-Boston Campus (53.4 inches), Curry College (53.4 inches), and Boston Baptist College (53.4 inches), and others, ending with SUNY College at Geneseo (31.5 inches).

29 out of the other 871 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for annual rainfall, e.g., SUNY College at Plattsburgh.

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.
   

Charter Oak State College is in New Britain, CT, is public, degree-granting, its top major is liberal arts and sciences/liberal studies, is on the semester system, its top Associates major is liberal arts and sciences/liberal studies, and enrolls from 1,000 to 4,999 students.

• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($8,412)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($6,393)
• endowment per full-time student ($1,527)
• research spending ($0.0K)
• research spending per student ($0.0)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (89.4%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (31.6%)
• minorities (24.5%)
• Blacks or African Americans (13.6%)
• Hispanics (8.6%)
• Asians (2%)
• foreign students (0.5%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.3%)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• foreign students (14)
• full-time undergrads (276)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• undergrads (1,644)
• yearly for-credit students (2,637)
• students per faculty member (14)
• annual rainfall (58.5 inches)
• elevation (49 meters)

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