bested Alaska Bible College (-5.0 degrees), U of Alaska Fairbanks (-3.9 degrees), and Turtle Mountain Community College (5.7 degrees).

tied with Oak Hills Christian College (5.9 degrees).

Incidentally, none of the 5 is a top-Green college.

trailed U of Minnesota-Crookston (6.1 degrees), U of Maine at Fort Kent (6.6 degrees), Mayville State Univ (6.8 degrees), and U of North Dakota (7.4 degrees), and others, ending with U of the Virgin Islands (78.8 degrees).

384 out of the other 3,121 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for average January temperature, e.g., World Medicine Institute.

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).
   

Bemidji State Univ is in Bemidji, MN, is public, is in the Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference, degree-granting, has a nursing major, has its top Masters major in education, has its top major in business, offers on-campus housing, requires test scores for undergrad admissions, is on the semester system, its top Associates major is liberal arts and sciences/liberal studies, and enrolls from 5,000 to 9,999 students.

• PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (757th place)
• research spending ($300K)
• average full-time teaching salary ($70,275)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($8,107)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($8,107)
• average undergrad student loan ($7,740)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($5,181)
• cost of a shared room ($4,380)
• endowment per full-time student ($2,881)
• research spending per student ($44)
• in-state freshmen (88.6%)
• undergrads who get financial aid (88%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (71%)
• full-time retention rate (69%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (54.6%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (36%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (12.6%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 11.6%)
• minorities (6.4%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (2.7%)
• foreign students (2.5%)
• Hispanics (1.5%)
• Blacks or African Americans (1.3%)
• Asians (0.9%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -10.4%)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (1)
• average January temperature (5.9 degrees)
• dorm capacity (1,432)
• first-year applicants (3,121)
• foreign students (166)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• yearly for-credit students (6,645)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (1.2)
• students per faculty member (23)
• annual rainfall (26.6 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.10)
• elevation (408 meters)

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