U of North Dakota is first with 7.4 degrees.

Incidentally, both are in the Plains.

trailed St Olaf College (13.8 degrees), Carleton College (13.8 degrees), Gustavus Adolphus College (14.6 degrees), and St Catherine Univ (14.7 degrees), and others, ending with U of Hawaii at Manoa (72.9 degrees).

20 out of the other 283 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for average January temperature, e.g., Spelman 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 Phi Beta Kappa chapters were determined in Feb 2014 at http://www.pbk.org.
   

College of Saint Benedict is in Saint Joseph, MN, is private and nonprofit, is Roman Catholic, degree-granting, accepts the Common Application, has a Phi Beta Kappa chapter, has a nursing major, offers on-campus housing, requires test scores for undergrad admissions, its top major is biology/biological sciences, is on the semester system, and enrolls from 1,000 to 4,999 students.

• USNews Liberal Arts College ranking (94th place)
• average full-time teaching salary ($69,584)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($36,218)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($36,218)
• endowment per full-time student ($21,099)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($20,277)
• average undergrad student loan ($9,299)
• cost of a shared room ($4,463)
• research spending ($0.0K)
• research spending per student ($0.0)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (100%)
• undergrads who get financial aid (99%)
• full-time retention rate (89%)
• in-state freshmen (78.8%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (67%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (26%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (20%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 11.4%)
• minorities (9.6%)
• foreign students (6.9%)
• Asians (4.9%)
• disabled students (4%)
• Hispanics (2.9%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (1.4%)
• Blacks or African Americans (1.2%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.6%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -10.2%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (480)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (480)
• 25th percentile SAT writing score (490)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (610)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (640)
• 75th percentile SAT writing score (640)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• average January temperature (13.7 degrees)
• dorm capacity (1,682)
• first-year applicants (1,938)
• foreign students (147)
• full-time undergrads (2,037)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (1)
• total 75th percentile SAT score (1,890)
• undergrads (2,070)
• yearly for-credit students (2,138)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (3.12)
• students per faculty member (12)
• annual rainfall (30.5 inches)
• elevation (335 meters)

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