beat out by U of Sacred Heart (75.5 degrees) and Inter American U of Puerto Rico-San German (74.6 degrees).

tied with Florida Career College-Miami (66.6 degrees).

Incidentally, none of the 4 requires test scores for undergrad admissions.

beat Everest Univ-Brandon (60.8 degrees), U of Tampa (60.8 degrees), Florida Inst. of Technology (60.3 degrees), and Chapman Univ (58.4 degrees), and others, ending with U of Alaska Fairbanks (-3.9 degrees).

26 out of the other 277 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for average January temperature, e.g., U of Puerto Rico-Bayamon.

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. The college's size is from the IPEDS Directory, 2012-13 (Provisional release) by the National Center for Education Statistics (http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds).
   

Barry Univ is in Miami, FL, is private and nonprofit, is Roman Catholic, research intensive, has a law school, has a nursing major, has its top major in nursing, offers on-campus housing, is on the semester system, its top Masters major is social work, its top Doctoral major is law, and enrolls from 5,000 to 9,999 students.

• PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (617th place)
• average full-time teaching salary ($74,740)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($28,160)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($28,160)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($21,176)
• cost of typical room and board ($9,440)
• average undergrad student loan ($6,397)
• endowment per full-time student ($3,574)
• research spending ($0.0K)
• research spending per student ($0.0)
• undergrads who get financial aid (98%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (77%)
• full-time retention rate (62%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (59%)
• undergrads among full-time students (50.9%)
• in-state freshmen (45.3%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (43.7%)
• minorities (36.5%)
• grad students who are under 25 years old (18.9%)
• Blacks or African Americans (18.1%)
• Hispanics (16%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 13.7%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (6.7%)
• foreign students (4.9%)
• Asians (2.2%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.2%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -12%)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• average January temperature (66.6 degrees)
• dorm capacity (1,426)
• foreign students (526)
• full-time grad students (2,350)
• full-time undergrads (3,824)
• grad students (4,451)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• undergrads (4,619)
• yearly for-credit students (10,673)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (1.12)
• students per faculty member (12)
• annual rainfall (64.9 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.03)
• elevation (3 meters)

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