outdone by San Diego State Univ-Imperial Valley Campus (2.6 inches), Columbia Basin College (8.8 inches), and New Mexico State Univ (9.7 inches).

Incidentally, none of the 4 is a top-Green college.

outdid The College of Idaho (11.1 inches), U of Alaska Fairbanks (12.1 inches), Cal State-Stanislaus (12.4 inches), and Walla Walla Univ (14.5 inches), and others, ending with Inter American U of Puerto Rico-Fajardo (67.3 inches).

7 out of the other 131 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for annual rainfall, e.g., Pacific Northwest U of Health Sciences.

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. Whether a college is rural, suburban, or in a town, city, or big city, is from the IPEDS Directory, 2012-13 (Provisional release) by the National Center for Education Statistics (http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds).
   

Northwest Nazarene Univ is in Nampa, ID, is private and nonprofit, is of the Church of the Nazarene, grants doctorates, has a nursing major, has its top major in business, offers on-campus housing, requires test scores for undergrad admissions, is on the semester system, its top Masters major is business administration and management, and enrolls from 1,000 to 4,999 students.

• research spending ($300K)
• average full-time teaching salary ($52,837)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($25,190)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($25,190)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($14,809)
• endowment per full-time student ($13,780)
• average undergrad student loan ($6,813)
• cost of typical room and board ($6,400)
• research spending per student ($118)
• undergrads who get financial aid (99%)
• full-time retention rate (80%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (77%)
• undergrads among full-time students (66.2%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (62.9%)
• in-state freshmen (49.8%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (36%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (31.1%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (13.5%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 11.7%)
• grad students who are under 25 years old (10.5%)
• minorities (9.3%)
• Hispanics (6.1%)
• foreign students (2.6%)
• Asians (1.3%)
• Blacks or African Americans (1.2%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.7%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -10.5%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (470)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (470)
• 25th percentile SAT writing score (470)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (620)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (600)
• 75th percentile SAT writing score (570)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• average January temperature (30.6 degrees)
• dorm capacity (860)
• first-year applicants (993)
• foreign students (67)
• full-time grad students (551)
• full-time undergrads (1,154)
• grad students (755)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (2)
• total 75th percentile SAT score (1,790)
• undergrads (1,477)
• yearly for-credit students (2,607)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (1.53)
• students per faculty member (14)
• annual rainfall (10.9 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.03)
• elevation (763 meters)

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