closest are McNally Smith College of Music (17.0 degrees), Metropolitan State Univ (17.0 degrees), Mount Mary College (21.6 degrees), and Wisconsin School of Professional Psychology (21.6 degrees), ending with Dewey Univ (77.6 degrees).

46 out of the other 468 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for average January temperature, e.g., Simmons College of Kentucky.

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. Whether a college is rural, suburban, or in a town, city, or big city, is from the IPEDS Directory, 2012-13 (Provisional release) by the National Center for Education Statistics (http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds).
   
3. College geographic information is from the IPEDS Directory, 2012-13 (Provisional release) by the National Center for Education Statistics (http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds).
   

College of Visual Arts is in Saint Paul, MN, is private and nonprofit, open admission, degree-granting, its top major is fine/studio arts and illustration, is on the semester system, and enrolls fewer than 1,000 students.

• average full-time teaching salary ($59,847)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($25,761)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($25,761)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($10,724)
• average undergrad student loan ($9,571)
• endowment per full-time student ($396)
• research spending ($0.0K)
• research spending per student ($0.0)
• undergrads who get financial aid (95%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (86%)
• in-state freshmen (79.4%)
• full-time retention rate (59%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (52%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (13.5%)
• minorities (10.9%)
• disabled students (5%)
• Asians (5%)
• Blacks or African Americans (4.1%)
• Hispanics (1.8%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 0.3%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• foreign students (0%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -0.3%)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• average January temperature (14.7 degrees)
• 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 (219)
• students per faculty member (8)
• annual rainfall (31.9 inches)
• elevation (240 meters)

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