trailed U of Maine at Fort Kent (6.6 degrees), Mayville State Univ (6.8 degrees), Valley City State Univ (8.2 degrees), and Western State Colorado Univ (9.1 degrees), and others, ending with U of the Virgin Islands (78.8 degrees).

149 out of the other 1,133 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for average January temperature, e.g., American Samoa Community College.

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. The college's size is from the IPEDS Directory, 2012-13 (Provisional release) by the National Center for Education Statistics (http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds).
   

U of Minnesota-Crookston is in Crookston, MN, is public, is in the Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference, degree-granting, offers on-campus housing, has its top major in business, requires test scores for undergrad admissions, is on the semester system, its top Associates major is dietitian assistant, and enrolls from 1,000 to 4,999 students.

• research spending ($500K)
• average full-time teaching salary ($60,225)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($11,456)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($11,456)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($9,358)
• average undergrad student loan ($7,771)
• cost of a shared room ($3,288)
• endowment per full-time student ($1,825)
• research spending per student ($157)
• undergrads who get financial aid (91%)
• full-time retention rate (73%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (69%)
• in-state freshmen (67.2%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (50.6%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (36%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (24.4%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 20.5%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (14.7%)
• minorities (7.2%)
• foreign students (6.6%)
• disabled students (5%)
• Blacks or African Americans (3.7%)
• Hispanics (1.5%)
• Asians (1.2%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.8%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -17%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (460)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (450)
• 25th percentile SAT writing score (440)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (560)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (560)
• 75th percentile SAT writing score (510)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (2)
• average January temperature (6.1 degrees)
• dorm capacity (591)
• first-year applicants (650)
• foreign students (207)
• full-time undergrads (1,393)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• total 75th percentile SAT score (1,630)
• undergrads (2,764)
• yearly for-credit students (3,152)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (0)
• students per faculty member (20)
• annual rainfall (22.1 inches)
• elevation (270 meters)

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