closest are MGH Inst. of Health Professions (29.0 degrees), Hult International Business School (29.0 degrees), Suffolk Univ (29.0 degrees), and New England College of Business and Finance (29.0 degrees), ending with U of Hawaii-West Oahu (72.7 degrees).

3 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for average January temperature.

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. Northeastern-ness is calculated as the sum of latitude and longitude, both from the IPEDS Directory, 2012-13 (Provisional release) by the National Center for Education Statistics (http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds).
   

Salem State Univ is in Salem, MA, is public, degree-granting, has a nursing major, has its top major in nursing, offers on-campus housing, requires test scores for undergrad admissions, is on the semester system, its top Masters major is social work, and enrolls from 5,000 to 9,999 students.

• PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (724th place)
• average full-time teaching salary ($72,880)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($14,250)
• cost of a shared room ($8,292)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($8,110)
• average undergrad student loan ($6,571)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($5,799)
• endowment per full-time student ($2,052)
• research spending ($0.0K)
• research spending per student ($0.0)
• in-state freshmen (94.7%)
• undergrads who get financial aid (88%)
• undergrads among full-time students (81.9%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (76%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (75.7%)
• full-time retention rate (74%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (65.3%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (38%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (25%)
• minorities (15.1%)
• grad students who are under 25 years old (13.3%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (9.2%)
• disabled students (7%)
• Hispanics (6.5%)
• Blacks or African Americans (6.1%)
• foreign students (3.2%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 3.1%)
• Asians (2.3%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.2%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -3%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (450)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (450)
• 25th percentile SAT writing score (450)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (540)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (550)
• 75th percentile SAT writing score (543)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• average January temperature (27.9 degrees)
• dorm capacity (2,074)
• first-year applicants (4,760)
• foreign students (428)
• full-time grad students (314)
• full-time undergrads (5,862)
• grad students (1,715)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• total 75th percentile SAT score (1,633)
• undergrads (7,741)
• yearly for-credit students (13,387)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (1.07)
• students per faculty member (15)
• annual rainfall (48.3 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.06)
• elevation (7 meters)

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