trailed Nyack College (19.9 degrees), Hartwick College (20.4 degrees), SUNY Inst. of Technology at Utica-Rome (20.7 degrees), and Bryant & Stratton College-Southtowns (22.1 degrees), and others, ending with Morgan State Univ (35.8 degrees).

15 out of the other 86 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for average January temperature, e.g., Robert Morris.

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 regions of the country are divided into New England, Mid Atlantic, Southeast, Southwest, Far West, Rocky Mountains, Great Lakes, Plains, and Outlying Areas.
   
3. 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.
   

Cazenovia College is in Cazenovia, NY, is private and nonprofit, degree-granting, offers on-campus housing, accepts the Common Application, has its top major in business, is on the semester system, its top Associates major is liberal arts and sciences, general studies and humanities, other, and enrolls fewer than 1,000 students.

• average full-time teaching salary ($58,044)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($28,022)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($28,022)
• endowment per full-time student ($22,405)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($22,152)
• average undergrad student loan ($8,659)
• cost of a shared room ($6,410)
• research spending ($0.0K)
• research spending per student ($0.0)
• undergrads who get financial aid (99%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (86%)
• in-state freshmen (81.3%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (72.4%)
• full-time retention rate (68%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (48%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (16%)
• minorities (13.8%)
• disabled students (10%)
• Blacks or African Americans (7.1%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 3.9%)
• Hispanics (3.7%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (1.9%)
• Asians (1.1%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• foreign students (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -3.7%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (440)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (420)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (540)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (540)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• average January temperature (19.2 degrees)
• dorm capacity (879)
• first-year applicants (2,607)
• 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 (1,416)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (2.82)
• students per faculty member (11)
• annual rainfall (46.3 inches)
• elevation (360 meters)

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