bested Saint Cloud State Univ (11.6 degrees) and The College of Saint Scholastica (11.6 degrees).

tied with U of St. Thomas (14.7 degrees).

Incidentally, all 4 are in Minnesota.

trailed U of Phoenix-Minneapolis/St Paul Campus (14.9 degrees), Globe Univ-Woodbury (15.5 degrees), DeVry Univ's Keller Graduate School of Management-Minnesota (15.6 degrees), and Minnesota School of Business-Richfield (15.6 degrees), and others, ending with U of Phoenix-Puerto Rico Campus (75.5 degrees).

56 out of the other 532 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for average January temperature, e.g., Strayer Univ-Arkansas.

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. Information on majors and programs of study is from the Completions Data File, 2011-12 (Provisional release) as reported by the National Center for Education Statistics (http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds). Top majors are the ones that have the most conferred degrees. If it says "is in" rather than just "is", then various top majors were combined into a new attribute. For example, colleges whose top major is "in engineering" will include a college whose top major is chemical engineering, another whose top major is electrical engineering, and so on.
   

Concordia Univ-Saint Paul is in Saint Paul, MN, is private and nonprofit, is in the Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference, is of the Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod, open admission, degree-granting, offers on-campus housing, has its top major in business, is on the semester system, its top Masters major is business administration and management, its top Associates major is general studies, and enrolls from 1,000 to 4,999 students.

• PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (606th place)
• average full-time teaching salary ($48,875)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($29,700)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($29,700)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($19,038)
• endowment per full-time student ($8,881)
• cost of typical room and board ($7,500)
• average undergrad student loan ($7,389)
• research spending ($0.0K)
• research spending per student ($0.0)
• undergrads who get financial aid (100%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (85%)
• in-state freshmen (77.3%)
• full-time retention rate (71%)
• undergrads among full-time students (59.2%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (55%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (36.8%)
• minorities (17%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (12.5%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 9.9%)
• disabled students (9%)
• Blacks or African Americans (9%)
• grad students who are under 25 years old (5.8%)
• Asians (5%)
• Hispanics (2.5%)
• foreign students (0.6%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.5%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -9%)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• average January temperature (14.7 degrees)
• dorm capacity (525)
• foreign students (22)
• full-time grad students (1,106)
• full-time undergrads (976)
• grad students (1,232)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• undergrads (1,786)
• yearly for-credit students (3,741)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (3.92)
• students per faculty member (15)
• annual rainfall (31.9 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.07)
• elevation (284 meters)

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