Minnesota State Univ Moorhead is first with 9.2 degrees.

Incidentally, both are in the Plains.

trailed Lyndon State College (13.3 degrees), Castleton State College (18.5 degrees), U of Vermont (18.7 degrees), and Dordt College (18.9 degrees), and others, ending with American U of Puerto Rico (74.4 degrees).

3 out of the other 57 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for average January temperature, e.g., American U of Puerto Rico.

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.
   

Northern State Univ is in Aberdeen, SD, is public, is in the Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference, degree-granting, 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 general studies, and enrolls from 1,000 to 4,999 students.

• PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (846th place)
• average full-time teaching salary ($59,829)
• endowment per full-time student ($9,522)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($9,133)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($7,269)
• average undergrad student loan ($6,155)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($4,156)
• cost of a shared room ($2,703)
• research spending per student ($3)
• research spending ($0.0K)
• undergrads who get financial aid (95%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (72%)
• full-time retention rate (69%)
• in-state freshmen (68.9%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (54.6%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (39%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (25.6%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 21%)
• foreign students (9.6%)
• minorities (6.4%)
• Hispanics (2.2%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (2.2%)
• Blacks or African Americans (1.2%)
• Asians (0.8%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -17.3%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (-24.2%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (430)
• 25th percentile SAT writing score (470)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (560)
• 75th percentile SAT writing score (550)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (2)
• average January temperature (12.0 degrees)
• dorm capacity (853)
• first-year applicants (1,142)
• foreign students (389)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• yearly for-credit students (4,070)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (0.3)
• students per faculty member (18)
• annual rainfall (21.7 inches)
• elevation (396 meters)

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