closest are U of Minnesota-Twin Cities (19th place, 16.0 degrees), U of Wisconsin-Madison (33rd place, 18.8 degrees), U of New Hampshire School of Law (119th place, 20.6 degrees), and Marquette (94th place, 22.0 degrees), ending with U of Hawaii at Manoa (80th place, 72.9 degrees).

9 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for average January temperature.

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 2014 US News Law School ranking is at http://grad-schools.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-law-schools.
   

U of St. Thomas is in Saint Paul, MN, is private and nonprofit, is in the Minnesota Intercollegiate Ath Conf, is Roman Catholic, research intensive, has a law school, offers on-campus housing, requires test scores for undergrad admissions, its top major is marketing/marketing management, 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 10,000 to 19,999 students.

• USNews law school ranking (124th place)
• PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (175th place)
• research spending ($800K)
• average full-time teaching salary ($86,774)
• endowment per full-time student ($35,313)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($33,787)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($33,787)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($15,110)
• average undergrad student loan ($9,794)
• cost of a shared room ($5,546)
• research spending per student ($68)
• undergrads who get financial aid (98%)
• full-time retention rate (88%)
• in-state freshmen (74.5%)
• undergrads among full-time students (61.3%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (61%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (47.8%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (20%)
• grad students who are under 25 years old (16.7%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (14.7%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 13.7%)
• minorities (11.2%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (5.4%)
• disabled students (5%)
• Asians (4.4%)
• foreign students (3.6%)
• Blacks or African Americans (3.6%)
• Hispanics (3%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.2%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -12%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (530)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (530)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (650)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (660)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (23)
• average January temperature (14.7 degrees)
• dorm capacity (2,722)
• first-year applicants (5,362)
• foreign students (421)
• full-time grad students (1,223)
• full-time undergrads (6,046)
• grad students (3,980)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• undergrads (6,309)
• yearly for-credit students (11,859)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (1.35)
• students per faculty member (14)
• annual rainfall (31.9 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.54)
• elevation (266 meters)

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