outdid Southwest U of Visual Arts-Albuquerque (9.4 inches), The Art Inst. of Phoenix (10.8 inches), Southwest U of Visual Arts-Tucson (11.6 inches), and The Art Inst. of California-Argosy Univ San Diego (12.5 inches), and 31 others, ending with Digital Media Arts College (61.4 inches).

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). Top majors are the ones that have the most conferred degrees. If it says "is in" rather than just "is", then various top majors were combined into a new attribute. For example, colleges whose top major is "in engineering" will include a college whose top major is chemical engineering, another whose top major is electrical engineering, and so on.
   

The Art Inst. of Las Vegas is in Henderson, NV, is private and for-profit, degree-granting, has a culinary program, offers on-campus housing, its top major is graphic design, is on the quarter system, its top Associates major is culinary arts/chef training, and enrolls from 1,000 to 4,999 students.

• average full-time teaching salary ($48,916)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($17,616)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($17,616)
• cost of a shared room ($8,859)
• average undergrad student loan ($7,633)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($5,066)
• endowment per full-time student ($0)
• undergrads who get financial aid (97%)
• in-state freshmen (97%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (93%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (70%)
• full-time retention rate (55%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (46.4%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (37.1%)
• minorities (32.3%)
• Hispanics (25.9%)
• Asians (3.5%)
• Blacks or African Americans (2.5%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, 1.2%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (0.6%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.4%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• foreign students (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, -1.2%)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• average January temperature (48.7 degrees)
• dorm capacity (80)
• first-year applicants (107)
• foreign students (0)
• full-time undergrads (716)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• undergrads (1,085)
• yearly for-credit students (1,765)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (0)
• students per faculty member (20)
• annual rainfall (4.2 inches)
• elevation (639 meters)

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