bested Alaska Bible College (-5.0 degrees) and U of Alaska Fairbanks (-3.9 degrees).

Incidentally, all 3 are open admission.

trailed Oak Hills Christian College (5.9 degrees), Bemidji State Univ (5.9 degrees), U of Minnesota-Crookston (6.1 degrees), and U of Maine at Fort Kent (6.6 degrees), and others, ending with U of the Virgin Islands (78.8 degrees).

384 out of the other 3,121 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for average January temperature, e.g., World Medicine Institute.

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).
   

Turtle Mountain Community College is in Belcourt, ND, is private and nonprofit, tribal, open admission, degree-granting, a land-grant institution, more than 50% Black, Hispanic, Asian, American Indian, or Alaska Native, has its top major in education, is on the semester system, its top Associates major is liberal arts and sciences/liberal studies, and enrolls fewer than 1,000 students.

• research spending ($100K)
• average full-time teaching salary ($41,065)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($5,867)
• endowment per full-time student ($2,955)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($2,250)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($2,250)
• research spending per student ($145)
• in-state freshmen (100%)
• minorities (95.2%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (94.4%)
• undergrads who get financial aid (88%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (75%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (41.4%)
• full-time retention rate (38%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (12.5%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 0.9%)
• Hispanics (0.5%)
• Blacks or African Americans (0.3%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• foreign students (0%)
• Asians (0%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -0.9%)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• average January temperature (5.7 degrees)
• foreign students (0)
• full-time undergrads (445)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• undergrads (532)
• yearly for-credit students (960)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (4.51)
• students per faculty member (11)
• annual rainfall (18.9 inches)
• elevation (617 meters)

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