outdid East Stroudsburg U of Pennsylvania (50.8 inches), Penn State-Schuylkill (50.2 inches), Cairn Univ (49.3 inches), and Strayer Univ-Pennsylvania (49.3 inches), and others, ending with The Art Inst. of Pittsburgh-Online Division (34.8 inches).

6 out of the other 165 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for annual rainfall, e.g., Thomas Jefferson 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. College geographic information is from the IPEDS Directory, 2012-13 (Provisional release) by the National Center for Education Statistics (http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds).
   

Penn State-Hazleton is in Hazleton, PA, is public, degree-granting, offers on-campus housing, has its top major in business, requires test scores for undergrad admissions, is on the semester system, its top Associates major is physical therapy technician/assistant, and enrolls from 1,000 to 4,999 students.

• average full-time teaching salary ($62,785)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($19,856)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($13,300)
• endowment per full-time student ($8,274)
• average undergrad student loan ($7,903)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($7,177)
• cost of a shared room ($4,910)
• undergrads who get financial aid (91%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (82%)
• full-time retention rate (78%)
• in-state freshmen (65.4%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (52%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (49.3%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (45.8%)
• minorities (31%)
• Hispanics (14.3%)
• Blacks or African Americans (12.4%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 10.4%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (9%)
• Asians (3.9%)
• foreign students (1.8%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.4%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -9.4%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (420)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (410)
• 25th percentile SAT writing score (390)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (530)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (510)
• 75th percentile SAT writing score (500)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• dorm capacity (456)
• first-year applicants (1,268)
• foreign students (23)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• total 75th percentile SAT score (1,540)
• yearly for-credit students (1,268)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (3.42)
• students per faculty member (16)
• annual rainfall (52.8 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.01)
• elevation (459 meters)

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