U of North Dakota is first with 7.4 degrees.

tied with U of St. Thomas (14.7 degrees).

Incidentally, all 3 are in the Plains.

trailed U of Minnesota-Twin Cities (16.0 degrees), Hamline Univ (16.3 degrees), U of Wisconsin-Madison (18.8 degrees), and Northern Illinois Univ (20.3 degrees), and others, ending with Inter American U of Puerto Rico-School of Law (75.5 degrees).

19 out of the other 210 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for average January temperature, e.g., Faulkner Univ.

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. Information on majors and programs of study is from the Completions Data File, 2011-12 (Provisional release) as reported by the National Center for Education Statistics (http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds). Sometimes Data File entries are combined into an umbrella major, e.g., a "Spanish major" is counted if there is a Data File entry for either 16.0905 (Spanish Language and Literature) or 16.0908 (Hispanic and Latin American Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics, General), but not 16.0900 (Romance Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics, General).
   

William Mitchell College of Law is in Saint Paul, MN, is private and nonprofit, grants doctorates, has a law school, is on the semester system, its top Doctoral major is law, and enrolls fewer than 1,000 students.

• USNews law school ranking (134th place)
• average full-time teaching salary ($138,544)
• endowment per full-time student ($19,461)
• research spending ($0.0K)
• research spending per student ($0.0)
• grad students who are under 25 years old (36%)
• minorities (11.1%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 6.2%)
• Asians (5.3%)
• Hispanics (2.8%)
• Blacks or African Americans (2.3%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.7%)
• foreign students (0.6%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -5.8%)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• average January temperature (14.7 degrees)
• foreign students (6)
• full-time grad students (624)
• grad students (924)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• yearly for-credit students (1,018)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (0.6)
• annual rainfall (31.9 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.63)
• elevation (277 meters)

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