Heritage Univ is first with 8.3 inches.

Incidentally, both are open admission.

outdid Central Washington Univ (9.0 inches), Northwest Nazarene Univ (10.9 inches), The College of Idaho (11.1 inches), and Oregon State-Cascades Campus (11.4 inches), and others, ending with Olympic College (56.4 inches).

3 out of the other 103 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for annual rainfall, e.g., Pacific Northwest U of Health Sciences.

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. Distance calculations between two colleges use a mathematical formula for the distance on a sphere between two points.
   

Columbia Basin College is in Pasco, WA, is public, open admission, degree-granting, has an emergency medical technology program, has its top major in business, is on the quarter system, its top Associates major is liberal arts and sciences/liberal studies, and enrolls from 5,000 to 9,999 students.

• average full-time teaching salary ($56,875)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($6,505)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($4,965)
• average undergrad student loan ($4,610)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($4,176)
• endowment per full-time student ($2,329)
• research spending ($0.0K)
• research spending per student ($0.0)
• in-state freshmen (98.2%)
• undergrads who get financial aid (62%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (55.8%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (52.3%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (47%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (35.4%)
• minorities (31.1%)
• Hispanics (26.4%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (8%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 6.3%)
• disabled students (4%)
• Asians (2.3%)
• Blacks or African Americans (1.6%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.8%)
• foreign students (0.1%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -5.9%)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• average January temperature (34.9 degrees)
• foreign students (7)
• full-time undergrads (3,571)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• undergrads (6,294)
• yearly for-credit students (9,254)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (0.2)
• students per faculty member (21)
• annual rainfall (8.8 inches)
• elevation (125 meters)

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