outdone by Caribbean Univ-Carolina (73.1 inches) and Florida National Univ (70.4 inches).

Incidentally, all 3 are more than 50% Black, Hispanic, Asian, American Indian, or Alaska Native.

outdid Inter American U of Puerto Rico-Fajardo (67.3 inches), Lincoln College of Technology-West Palm Beach (62.3 inches), American U of Puerto Rico (61.6 inches), and Florida Memorial Univ (61.0 inches), and others, ending with ITT Technical Institute-Las Vegas (5.4 inches).

3 out of the other 122 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for annual rainfall, e.g., St. Thomas Aquinas 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. 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.
   

American U of Puerto Rico is in Bayamon, PR, is private and nonprofit, open admission, degree-granting, more than 50% Black, Hispanic, Asian, American Indian, or Alaska Native, has its top Masters major in education, has its top major in criminal justice, is on the semester system, its top Associates major is criminal justice/safety studies, and enrolls from 1,000 to 4,999 students.

• research spending ($100K)
• average full-time teaching salary ($28,312)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($5,322)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($5,322)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($4,851)
• average undergrad student loan ($1,584)
• research spending per student ($45)
• endowment per full-time student ($0)
• Hispanics (100%)
• minorities (100%)
• undergrads who get financial aid (85%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (81%)
• full-time retention rate (78%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (13.6%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (1%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, 0.6%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• foreign students (0%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0%)
• Asians (0%)
• Blacks or African Americans (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, -0.6%)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• foreign students (0)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• yearly for-credit students (1,573)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (1.27)
• students per faculty member (23)
• annual rainfall (67.8 inches)
• elevation (61 meters)

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