outdone by U of Phoenix-Phoenix Campus (8.0 inches) and Cal State-Bakersfield (8.0 inches).

tied with Columbia Basin College (8.8 inches).

Incidentally, none of the 4 requires test scores for undergrad admissions.

outdid Colorado Mesa Univ (9.4 inches), Southern Utah Univ (11.3 inches), U of Alaska Fairbanks (12.1 inches), and U of San Diego (12.3 inches), and others, ending with U of Puerto Rico-Bayamon (72.6 inches).

11 out of the other 277 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for annual rainfall, e.g., U of Wisconsin-Green Bay.

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. The college's size is from the IPEDS Directory, 2012-13 (Provisional release) by the National Center for Education Statistics (http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds).
   

Dixie State Univ is in Saint George, UT, is public, open admission, degree-granting, has a nursing major, has an emergency medical technology program, offers on-campus housing, its top major is speech communication and rhetoric, is on the semester system, its top Associates major is general studies, and enrolls from 5,000 to 9,999 students.

• research spending ($100K)
• average full-time teaching salary ($57,712)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($11,721)
• average undergrad student loan ($5,227)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($4,540)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($4,089)
• cost of a shared room ($1,550)
• endowment per full-time student ($1,430)
• research spending per student ($7)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (186.6%)
• undergrads who get financial aid (88%)
• in-state freshmen (83.4%)
• full-time retention rate (54%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (52%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (39%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (30%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 16.9%)
• minorities (10.5%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (7.6%)
• Hispanics (6.7%)
• Blacks or African Americans (1.6%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (1.2%)
• Asians (1%)
• foreign students (0.8%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -14.5%)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• average January temperature (42.4 degrees)
• dorm capacity (353)
• foreign students (88)
• full-time undergrads (5,393)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• undergrads (8,840)
• yearly for-credit students (11,662)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (0.2)
• students per faculty member (22)
• annual rainfall (8.8 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.04)
• elevation (811 meters)

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