tied with Daymar College-Bellevue (41.9 inches).

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

outdid Beckfield College-Florence (42.5 inches), Thomas More College (42.5 inches), Brown Mackie College-Northern Kentucky (42.5 inches), and U of Pikeville (42.9 inches), and others, ending with Murray State Univ (55.6 inches).

1 out of the other 54 colleges was ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for annual rainfall, i.e., Kentucky State 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).
   

Northern Kentucky Univ is in Highland Heights, KY, is public, grants doctorates, has a law school, has a nursing major, has its top Masters major in education, has its top major in nursing, offers on-campus housing, requires test scores for undergrad admissions, is on the semester system, its top Doctoral major is law, its top Associates major is architectural engineering technology/technician, and enrolls from 10,000 to 19,999 students.

• PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (747th place)
• Webometrics world ranking (1,231st place)
• research spending ($1.4M)
• average full-time teaching salary ($66,641)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($15,936)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($8,064)
• cost of typical room and board ($7,430)
• endowment per full-time student ($5,805)
• average undergrad student loan ($5,623)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($5,559)
• research spending per student ($75)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (97.6%)
• undergrads who get financial aid (95%)
• undergrads among full-time students (83.2%)
• full-time retention rate (67%)
• in-state freshmen (65.8%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (63%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (55.2%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (40%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (24.9%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (24.6%)
• grad students who are under 25 years old (15.5%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 14.6%)
• minorities (8.9%)
• Blacks or African Americans (5.9%)
• disabled students (4%)
• foreign students (3.4%)
• Hispanics (1.7%)
• Asians (1%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.3%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -12.7%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (440)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (440)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (550)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (550)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• average January temperature (31.2 degrees)
• dorm capacity (1,849)
• first-year applicants (7,330)
• foreign students (616)
• full-time grad students (817)
• full-time undergrads (9,901)
• grad students (2,622)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• undergrads (13,012)
• yearly for-credit students (18,242)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (0.4)
• students per faculty member (18)
• annual rainfall (41.9 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.04)
• elevation (249 meters)

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