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

tied with Bemidji State Univ (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).
   

Oak Hills Christian College is in Bemidji, MN, is private and nonprofit, is Interdenominational, degree-granting, offers on-campus housing, requires test scores for undergrad admissions, its top major is psychology, is on the semester system, its top Associates major is liberal arts and sciences/liberal studies, and enrolls fewer than 1,000 students.

• average full-time teaching salary ($37,120)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($14,670)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($14,670)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($10,431)
• average undergrad student loan ($7,976)
• endowment per full-time student ($3,802)
• cost of a shared room ($2,136)
• research spending ($0.0K)
• research spending per student ($0.0)
• undergrads who get financial aid (100%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (71%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (71%)
• in-state freshmen (67.9%)
• full-time retention rate (63%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (51.4%)
• minorities (13.3%)
• disabled students (13%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (8.8%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, 5.5%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (4.9%)
• Blacks or African Americans (4.9%)
• Hispanics (2.8%)
• Asians (0.7%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• foreign students (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, -5.2%)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• average January temperature (5.9 degrees)
• dorm capacity (154)
• first-year applicants (70)
• foreign students (0)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• yearly for-credit students (142)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (0)
• students per faculty member (14)
• annual rainfall (26.6 inches)
• elevation (408 meters)

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