bested U of North Dakota (7.4 degrees), U of St. Thomas (14.7 degrees), William Mitchell College of Law (14.7 degrees), and U of Minnesota-Twin Cities (16.0 degrees).

Incidentally, all 5 are in the Plains.

trailed U of Wisconsin-Madison (18.8 degrees), Northern Illinois Univ (20.3 degrees), U of New Hampshire School of Law (20.6 degrees), and U of South Dakota (20.9 degrees), and others, ending with Inter American U of Puerto Rico-School of Law (75.5 degrees).

19 out of the other 193 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for average January temperature, e.g., Faulkner 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. 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.
   

Hamline Univ is in Saint Paul, MN, is private and nonprofit, is in the Minnesota Intercollegiate Ath Conf, is United Methodist, grants doctorates, has a law school, offers on-campus housing, has a Phi Beta Kappa chapter, accepts the Common Application, requires test scores for undergrad admissions, its top major is psychology, is on a four-one-four calendar, its top Masters major is business administration and management, its top Doctoral major is law, and enrolls from 1,000 to 4,999 students.

• USNews law school ranking (126th place)
• PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (493rd place)
• research spending ($200K)
• average full-time teaching salary ($72,886)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($33,752)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($33,752)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($21,193)
• endowment per full-time student ($16,717)
• average undergrad student loan ($7,585)
• cost of a shared room ($4,500)
• research spending per student ($26)
• undergrads who get financial aid (99%)
• full-time retention rate (81%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (78%)
• in-state freshmen (78%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (63%)
• undergrads among full-time students (44.1%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (42%)
• grad students who are under 25 years old (15.4%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (15.1%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 9.8%)
• minorities (9.8%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (6.8%)
• disabled students (4%)
• Blacks or African Americans (3.8%)
• Asians (3%)
• foreign students (2.9%)
• Hispanics (2.6%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.4%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -8.9%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (510)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (510)
• 25th percentile SAT writing score (490)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (650)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (640)
• 75th percentile SAT writing score (605)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (11)
• average January temperature (16.3 degrees)
• dorm capacity (956)
• first-year applicants (3,282)
• foreign students (225)
• full-time grad students (828)
• full-time undergrads (1,966)
• grad students (2,619)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (5)
• total 75th percentile SAT score (1,895)
• undergrads (2,064)
• yearly for-credit students (7,740)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (0.8)
• students per faculty member (12)
• annual rainfall (32.2 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.14)
• elevation (279 meters)

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