closest are Nova Southeastern Univ (849th place, 66.5 inches), U of South Alabama (1,192nd place, 66.2 inches), Florida International Univ (227th place, 64.1 inches), and Louisiana State Univ (208th place, 62.6 inches), ending with U of Nevada-Las Vegas (200th place, 4.2 inches).

14 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for annual rainfall.

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 Webometrics world ranking of universities refers to the first 2014 version from Webometrics.info.
   

Louisiana State Univ Health Sciences Center-New Orleans is in New Orleans, LA, is public, grants doctorates, has a hospital, has a nursing major, has its top Masters major in nursing, has its top major in nursing, offers a Doctor of Medicine degree, offers on-campus housing, is on the semester system, its top Doctoral major is medicine, its top Associates major is dental laboratory technology/technician, and enrolls from 1,000 to 4,999 students.

• Webometrics world ranking (1,340th place)
• research spending ($63.1M)
• average full-time teaching salary ($80,464)
• endowment per full-time student ($26,709)
• research spending per student ($20,420)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($7,621)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($4,491)
• cost of a shared room ($3,360)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (69.7%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (37.6%)
• grad students who are under 25 years old (36.6%)
• undergrads among full-time students (32.4%)
• minorities (22.2%)
• Blacks or African Americans (10.1%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 9.5%)
• Asians (8.1%)
• Hispanics (3.7%)
• foreign students (2.3%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.3%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -8.7%)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• dorm capacity (466)
• foreign students (72)
• full-time grad students (1,692)
• full-time undergrads (552)
• grad students (1,886)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• undergrads (902)
• yearly for-credit students (3,092)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (2.37)
• students per faculty member (5)
• annual rainfall (66.6 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.01)
• elevation (0 meters)

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