bested Jamestown College (10.1 degrees) and Macalester College (14.7 degrees).

Incidentally, all 3 are in the Plains.

trailed Carroll Univ (19.2 degrees), U of Dubuque (19.4 degrees), Alma College (21.8 degrees), and Coe College (21.9 degrees), and others, ending with Eckerd College (61.6 degrees).

5 out of the other 59 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for average January temperature, e.g., Pittsburgh Theological Seminary.

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 religious affiliation (if any) is from the Institutional Characteristics Data File 2012-2013 (Provisional Release) as reported by the National Center for Education Statistics (http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds).
   

Buena Vista Univ is in Storm Lake, IA, is private and nonprofit, is in the Iowa Intercollegiate Athletic Conf, is of the Presbyterian Church - USA, degree-granting, offers on-campus housing, has its top Masters major in education, requires test scores for undergrad admissions, its top major is multi-/interdisciplinary studies, other, is on a four-one-four calendar, and enrolls from 1,000 to 4,999 students.

• PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (825th place)
• average full-time teaching salary ($64,636)
• endowment per full-time student ($42,282)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($28,314)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($28,314)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($20,006)
• average undergrad student loan ($9,381)
• cost of a shared room ($4,114)
• research spending ($0.0K)
• research spending per student ($0.0)
• undergrads who get financial aid (100%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (88%)
• full-time retention rate (77%)
• in-state freshmen (75%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (52%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (39%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 16.7%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (10.9%)
• minorities (6.9%)
• Hispanics (3.3%)
• Blacks or African Americans (2.3%)
• foreign students (1.6%)
• Asians (0.9%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.4%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -14.3%)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (1)
• average January temperature (17.6 degrees)
• dorm capacity (1,038)
• first-year applicants (1,223)
• foreign students (63)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• yearly for-credit students (3,839)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (1.82)
• students per faculty member (12)
• annual rainfall (34.7 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.00)
• elevation (431 meters)

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