bested Penn State-Dubois (23.6 degrees) and Clarion U of Pennsylvania (23.8 degrees).

Incidentally, all 3 are in a small town.

trailed Thiel College (24.2 degrees), Mansfield U of Pennsylvania (24.2 degrees), Bloomsburg U of Pennsylvania (24.8 degrees), and Allegheny College (25.1 degrees), and others, ending with Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (35.8 degrees).

30 out of the other 165 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for average January temperature, e.g., American College.

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. College geographic information is from the IPEDS Directory, 2012-13 (Provisional release) by the National Center for Education Statistics (http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds).
   

Edinboro U of Pennsylvania is in Edinboro, PA, is public, is in the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference, degree-granting, has a nursing major, has its top Masters major in education, has its top major in education, offers on-campus housing, requires test scores for undergrad admissions, is on the semester system, its top Associates major is elementary education and teaching, and enrolls from 5,000 to 9,999 students.

• PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (808th place)
• research spending ($100K)
• average full-time teaching salary ($79,114)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($12,315)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($8,578)
• average undergrad student loan ($6,883)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($5,790)
• cost of a shared room ($5,200)
• endowment per full-time student ($2,128)
• research spending per student ($10)
• undergrads who get financial aid (90%)
• in-state freshmen (83.2%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (83%)
• undergrads among full-time students (81.6%)
• full-time retention rate (68%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (60.1%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (48%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (43.6%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (20.8%)
• grad students who are under 25 years old (20.5%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (14.2%)
• minorities (9.2%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 8.5%)
• Blacks or African Americans (6.4%)
• disabled students (6%)
• Hispanics (1.9%)
• foreign students (1.1%)
• Asians (0.7%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.2%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -7.8%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (420)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (430)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (570)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (570)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (2)
• average January temperature (24.0 degrees)
• dorm capacity (2,940)
• first-year applicants (3,992)
• foreign students (102)
• full-time grad students (513)
• full-time undergrads (5,565)
• grad students (1,372)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• undergrads (6,090)
• yearly for-credit students (9,417)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (1.56)
• students per faculty member (16)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.11)
• elevation (368 meters)

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