beat out by U of Hawaii at Manoa (72.9 degrees) and U of Miami (68.9 degrees).

Incidentally, all 3 grant doctorates.

beat Florida International Univ (66.6 degrees), Argosy Univ-Sarasota (61.5 degrees), U of South Florida Sarasota-Manatee (61.4 degrees), and Argosy Univ-Tampa (60.8 degrees), and others, ending with Oak Hills Christian College (5.9 degrees).

20 out of the other 178 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for average January temperature, e.g., San Diego State Univ-Imperial Valley Campus.

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. Information on majors and programs of study is from the Completions Data File, 2011-12 (Provisional release) as reported by the National Center for Education Statistics (http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds). Top majors are the ones that have the most conferred degrees. If it says "is in" rather than just "is", then various top majors were combined into a new attribute. For example, colleges whose top major is "in engineering" will include a college whose top major is chemical engineering, another whose top major is electrical engineering, and so on.
   

Carlos Albizu Univ-Miami is in Miami, FL, is private and nonprofit, more than 50% Black, Hispanic, Asian, American Indian, or Alaska Native, grants doctorates, its top major is psychology, is on the trimester system, its top Masters major is counseling psychology, its top Doctoral major is clinical psychology, and enrolls from 1,000 to 4,999 students.

• average full-time teaching salary ($55,280)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($12,048)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($12,048)
• average undergrad student loan ($7,456)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($6,198)
• research spending per student ($18)
• endowment per full-time student ($0)
• research spending ($0.0K)
• in-state freshmen (90.9%)
• undergrads who get financial aid (88%)
• minorities (83.1%)
• Hispanics (76.3%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (75%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (63%)
• full-time retention rate (63%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (44.4%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, 11.4%)
• Blacks or African Americans (6%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (2.8%)
• foreign students (2.5%)
• Asians (0.6%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.2%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, -10.3%)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• average January temperature (68.2 degrees)
• first-year applicants (18)
• foreign students (34)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• yearly for-credit students (1,343)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (0.7)
• students per faculty member (15)
• annual rainfall (61.9 inches)
• elevation (1 meter)

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