closest are Charter Oak State College (58.5 inches), Central Connecticut State Univ (58.5 inches), Inter American U of Puerto Rico-Fajardo (67.3 inches), and National Univ College-Rio Grande (77.3 inches), ending with American Samoa Community College (213.9 inches).

1 college was ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for annual rainfall.

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. Northeastern-ness is calculated as the sum of latitude and longitude, both from the IPEDS Directory, 2012-13 (Provisional release) by the National Center for Education Statistics (http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds).
   

U of Saint Joseph is in West Hartford, CT, is private and nonprofit, is Roman Catholic, accepts the Common Application, grants doctorates, has a nursing major, has its top Masters major in education, offers on-campus housing, its top major is psychology, is on the semester system, and enrolls from 1,000 to 4,999 students.

• average full-time teaching salary ($71,545)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($31,826)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($31,826)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($17,812)
• endowment per full-time student ($11,224)
• average undergrad student loan ($7,304)
• cost of a shared room ($6,288)
• research spending ($0.0K)
• research spending per student ($0.0)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (100%)
• undergrads who get financial aid (99%)
• in-state freshmen (91.2%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (85%)
• full-time retention rate (80%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (43%)
• undergrads among full-time students (42.2%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (22.2%)
• grad students who are under 25 years old (18.1%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (17%)
• minorities (15.1%)
• disabled students (7%)
• Blacks or African Americans (6.5%)
• Hispanics (6.2%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 5.7%)
• Asians (2.3%)
• foreign students (0.4%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.1%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -5.4%)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• dorm capacity (430)
• first-year applicants (680)
• foreign students (12)
• full-time grad students (331)
• full-time undergrads (830)
• grad students (1,459)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• undergrads (1,066)
• yearly for-credit students (3,228)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (0.7)
• students per faculty member (10)
• annual rainfall (58.5 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.01)
• elevation (37 meters)

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