trailed Alaska Pacific Univ (11.7 degrees), Minnesota School of Business-Elk River (13.2 degrees), Southwest Minnesota State Univ (14.3 degrees), and National American Univ-Brooklyn Center (15.2 degrees), and others, ending with Millennia Atlantic Univ (68.2 degrees).

18 out of the other 134 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for average January temperature, e.g., Strayer Univ-Ohio.

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.
   

Mayville State Univ is in Mayville, ND, is public, open admission, degree-granting, has its top Associates major in business, has its top major in education, offers on-campus housing, is on the semester system, and enrolls from 1,000 to 4,999 students.

• research spending ($100K)
• average full-time teaching salary ($47,689)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($8,436)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($6,193)
• average undergrad student loan ($6,167)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($3,576)
• cost of a shared room ($1,874)
• research spending per student ($102)
• endowment per full-time student ($0)
• undergrads who get financial aid (98%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (77%)
• in-state freshmen (57.3%)
• full-time retention rate (52%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (43%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (36.2%)
• minorities (12.2%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (7.5%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 7.3%)
• Blacks or African Americans (4.9%)
• Hispanics (4.1%)
• foreign students (3.4%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (2.2%)
• Asians (1%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -6.8%)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• average January temperature (6.8 degrees)
• dorm capacity (294)
• foreign students (45)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• yearly for-credit students (1,310)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (0)
• students per faculty member (17)
• annual rainfall (23.9 inches)
• elevation (297 meters)

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