bested Conway School of Landscape Design (22.2 degrees), Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts (22.6 degrees), and Williams College (22.6 degrees).

Incidentally, none of the 4 grants doctorates.

trailed Smith College (23.1 degrees), UMass Amherst (23.1 degrees), Hampshire College (23.1 degrees), and Amherst College (23.1 degrees), and others, ending with Hult International Business School (29.0 degrees).

9 out of the other 101 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for average January temperature, e.g., Western New England 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).
   

Nichols College is in Dudley, MA, is private and nonprofit, is in the New England Football Conference, degree-granting, accepts the Common Application, has its top Associates major in business, has its top major in business, offers on-campus housing, is on the semester system, its top Masters major is business administration and management, and enrolls from 1,000 to 4,999 students.

• PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (385th place)
• average full-time teaching salary ($62,047)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($31,740)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($31,740)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($17,356)
• average undergrad student loan ($8,805)
• cost of a shared room ($5,800)
• endowment per full-time student ($0)
• research spending ($0.0K)
• research spending per student ($0.0)
• undergrads who get financial aid (94%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (76%)
• full-time retention rate (62%)
• in-state freshmen (61%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (44%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (33.7%)
• minorities (13.6%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (13.1%)
• Blacks or African Americans (6.2%)
• Hispanics (5.3%)
• disabled students (5%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 4.1%)
• Asians (1.7%)
• foreign students (1.1%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.4%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -3.9%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (395)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (390)
• 25th percentile SAT writing score (380)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (565)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (570)
• 75th percentile SAT writing score (560)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• average January temperature (22.8 degrees)
• dorm capacity (890)
• first-year applicants (2,348)
• foreign students (22)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• total 75th percentile SAT score (1,695)
• yearly for-credit students (1,930)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (2.59)
• students per faculty member (18)
• annual rainfall (48.7 inches)
• elevation (171 meters)

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