outdone by Broward College (66.5 inches), Pensacola State College (65.3 inches), and U of Alaska Southeast (63.6 inches).

Incidentally, all 4 are open admission.

outdid Louisiana State Univ-Alexandria (60.0 inches), U of North Carolina Wilmington (57.6 inches), U of New Orleans (56.8 inches), and U of Tennessee at Chattanooga (54.8 inches), and others, ending with Cal State-Bakersfield (8.0 inches).

8 out of the other 203 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. The type of college is from the IPEDS Directory, 2012-13 (Provisional release) by the National Center for Education Statistics and combines public/private, profit/nonprofit, length of degree program, etc (http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds).
   
3. 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.
   

Palm Beach State College is in Lake Worth, FL, is public, open admission, degree-granting, more than 50% Black, Hispanic, Asian, American Indian, or Alaska Native, has a carpentry program, has a grooming arts program, has a massaging or bodywork program, has a nursing major, has an electrician program, has an emergency medical technology program, has its top major in business, is on the semester system, its top Associates major is liberal arts and sciences/liberal studies, and enrolls 20,000 or more students.

• average full-time teaching salary ($55,635)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($8,612)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($4,896)
• average undergrad student loan ($4,007)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($2,378)
• endowment per full-time student ($831)
• research spending ($0.0K)
• research spending per student ($0.0)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (262.2%)
• in-state freshmen (98.3%)
• undergrads who get financial aid (77%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (63%)
• minorities (50.8%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (33.3%)
• Blacks or African Americans (25%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (24%)
• Hispanics (22.7%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (19.7%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 5.1%)
• Asians (2.9%)
• foreign students (1.4%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.2%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -4.9%)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• average January temperature (65.7 degrees)
• foreign students (596)
• full-time undergrads (10,177)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• undergrads (29,974)
• yearly for-credit students (43,413)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (0.1)
• students per faculty member (29)
• annual rainfall (62.3 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.02)
• elevation (2 meters)

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