tied with Calumet College of Saint Joseph (36.6 inches).

Incidentally, both are in the suburbs of a large city.

outdid Valparaiso Univ (37.5 inches), ITT Technical Institute-South Bend (38.0 inches), Saint Mary's College (38.0 inches), and Notre Dame (38.0 inches), and others, ending with Hanover College (47.9 inches).

3 out of the other 72 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for annual rainfall, e.g., Vincennes Univ.

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. College geographic information is from the IPEDS Directory, 2012-13 (Provisional release) by the National Center for Education Statistics (http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds).
   

Purdue Univ-Calumet Campus is in Hammond, IN, is public, degree-granting, has a nursing major, has its top Masters major in engineering, has its top major in nursing, offers on-campus housing, requires test scores for undergrad admissions, is on the semester system, its top Associates major is humanities/humanistic studies, and enrolls from 10,000 to 19,999 students.

• PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (265th place)
• research spending ($3.1M)
• average full-time teaching salary ($69,448)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($14,305)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($6,332)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($6,218)
• average undergrad student loan ($5,528)
• cost of a shared room ($5,170)
• endowment per full-time student ($1,759)
• research spending per student ($243)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (125.9%)
• undergrads among full-time students (88.6%)
• in-state freshmen (84.8%)
• undergrads who get financial aid (79%)
• full-time retention rate (69%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (51%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (48.1%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (43%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (38.5%)
• minorities (31%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 20.7%)
• grad students who are under 25 years old (17.2%)
• Blacks or African Americans (14.7%)
• Hispanics (14.2%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (11.4%)
• foreign students (6.4%)
• Asians (1.8%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.3%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -17.1%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (430)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (430)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (540)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (530)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• dorm capacity (744)
• first-year applicants (4,000)
• foreign students (806)
• full-time grad students (370)
• full-time undergrads (5,140)
• grad students (1,142)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• undergrads (8,912)
• yearly for-credit students (12,612)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (1.43)
• students per faculty member (19)
• annual rainfall (36.6 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.02)
• elevation (181 meters)

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