trailed U of Minnesota-Twin Cities (16.0 degrees), U of Vermont (18.7 degrees), U of Wisconsin-Madison (18.8 degrees), and Dartmouth (18.9 degrees), and others, ending with U of Puerto Rico-Medical Sciences (75.5 degrees).

18 out of the other 175 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for average January temperature, e.g., U of Pikeville.

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. Medical degrees include Medicine, Dentistry, Osteopathic Medicine, and Veterinary Medicine and are from the IPEDS Directory, 2012-13 (Provisional release) by the National Center for Education Statistics (http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds).
   

U of North Dakota is in Grand Forks, ND, is public, is in the Big Sky Conference, research intensive, has a Phi Beta Kappa chapter, has a law school, has a nursing major, has its top Masters major in nursing, has its top major in nursing, offers a Doctor of Medicine degree, offers on-campus housing, requires test scores for undergrad admissions, is on the semester system, its top Doctoral major is law, and enrolls from 10,000 to 19,999 students.

• USNews law school ranking (140th place)
• PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (527th place)
• Webometrics world ranking (726th place)
• research spending ($50.2M)
• average full-time teaching salary ($72,638)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($17,170)
• average undergrad student loan ($8,166)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($7,254)
• cost of typical room and board ($6,524)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($3,673)
• research spending per student ($2,813)
• endowment per full-time student ($995)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (136.7%)
• undergrads who get financial aid (90%)
• undergrads among full-time students (78.4%)
• full-time retention rate (74%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (63%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (48.8%)
• in-state freshmen (31.9%)
• grad students who are under 25 years old (23.1%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (21%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (17.5%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 12.1%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (8.4%)
• foreign students (8.2%)
• minorities (7.8%)
• Hispanics (2.2%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (2.1%)
• Blacks or African Americans (2%)
• Asians (1.5%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -10.8%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (500)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (470)
• 25th percentile SAT writing score (460)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (620)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (585)
• 75th percentile SAT writing score (570)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (26)
• average January temperature (7.4 degrees)
• dorm capacity (3,192)
• first-year applicants (4,857)
• foreign students (1,471)
• full-time grad students (1,727)
• full-time undergrads (9,655)
• grad students (3,297)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (12)
• total 75th percentile SAT score (1,775)
• undergrads (11,953)
• yearly for-credit students (17,852)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (0.6)
• students per faculty member (20)
• annual rainfall (21.6 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.07)
• elevation (253 meters)

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