U of North Dakota is first with 7.4 degrees.

Incidentally, both are in North Dakota.

trailed The College of Saint Scholastica (11.6 degrees), Presentation College (12.0 degrees), Sanford College of Nursing (12.8 degrees), and U of Mary (12.8 degrees), and others, ending with Dewey Univ (77.6 degrees).

41 out of the other 311 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for average January temperature, e.g., Jacksonville State 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). 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.
   

Jamestown College is in Jamestown, ND, is private and nonprofit, is of the Presbyterian Church - USA, degree-granting, has a nursing major, has its top major in nursing, offers on-campus housing, requires test scores for undergrad admissions, is on the semester system, and enrolls fewer than 1,000 students.

• average full-time teaching salary ($50,905)
• endowment per full-time student ($28,044)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($17,870)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($17,870)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($11,026)
• average undergrad student loan ($6,937)
• cost of a shared room ($2,674)
• research spending ($0.0K)
• research spending per student ($0.0)
• undergrads who get financial aid (100%)
• full-time retention rate (68%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (61%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (47.1%)
• in-state freshmen (35.1%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (22%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (11.6%)
• minorities (7.4%)
• foreign students (7.1%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 6.5%)
• Hispanics (3.2%)
• Blacks or African Americans (2.3%)
• Asians (1.3%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.6%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -6.1%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (420)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (390)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (550)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (510)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (2)
• average January temperature (10.1 degrees)
• dorm capacity (728)
• first-year applicants (1,031)
• foreign students (73)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (2)
• yearly for-credit students (1,023)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (0.6)
• students per faculty member (13)
• annual rainfall (18.8 inches)
• elevation (452 meters)

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