beat out by City College-Miami (68.9 degrees) and ITT Technical Institute-Miami (68.2 degrees).

tied with Brown Mackie College-Miami (67.6 degrees) and AI Miami International U of Art and Design (67.6 degrees).

Incidentally, all 5 are in Florida.

beat ITT Technical Institute-Deerfield Beach (66.8 degrees), City College-Fort Lauderdale (66.7 degrees), Johnson & Wales Univ-North Miami (66.6 degrees), and American InterContinental Univ-South Florida (66.2 degrees), and others, ending with Minnesota School of Business-Moorhead (9.2 degrees).

67 out of the other 543 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for average January temperature, e.g., U of Puerto Rico-Carolina.

1. The type of academic calendar is from the Institutional Characteristics Data File 2012-2013 (Provisional Release) as reported 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).
   

The Art Inst. of Fort Lauderdale is in Fort Lauderdale, FL, is private and for-profit, degree-granting, more than 50% Black, Hispanic, Asian, American Indian, or Alaska Native, has a culinary program, offers on-campus housing, its top major is fashion merchandising, is on the quarter system, its top Associates major is graphic design, and enrolls from 1,000 to 4,999 students.

• average full-time teaching salary ($53,088)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($17,904)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($17,904)
• cost of a shared room ($9,045)
• average undergrad student loan ($8,345)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($5,817)
• endowment per full-time student ($0)
• in-state freshmen (94%)
• undergrads who get financial aid (88%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (78%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (66%)
• minorities (61.8%)
• full-time retention rate (60%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (56.3%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (42.3%)
• Hispanics (37.9%)
• Blacks or African Americans (21.8%)
• disabled students (7%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (4.1%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, 3.3%)
• Asians (1.8%)
• foreign students (0.3%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.3%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, -3.2%)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• average January temperature (67.6 degrees)
• dorm capacity (359)
• first-year applicants (507)
• foreign students (10)
• full-time undergrads (1,066)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• undergrads (2,239)
• yearly for-credit students (3,487)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (0.1)
• students per faculty member (11)
• annual rainfall (63.5 inches)
• elevation (1 meter)

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