outdone by U of Hawaii at Hilo (126.7 inches), Caribbean Univ-Carolina (73.1 inches), and Puerto Rico Conservatory of Music (70.8 inches).

tied with American U of Puerto Rico (67.8 inches).

Incidentally, none of the 5 is on the mainland.

outdid U of Mobile (66.2 inches), U Del Turabo (65.1 inches), U of Alaska Southeast (63.6 inches), and McNeese State Univ (63.4 inches), and others, ending with San Diego State Univ-Imperial Valley Campus (2.6 inches).

22 out of the other 458 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for annual rainfall, e.g., SUNY College at Plattsburgh.

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.
   

Bayamon Central Univ is in Bayamon, PR, is private and nonprofit, is Roman Catholic, degree-granting, more than 50% Black, Hispanic, Asian, American Indian, or Alaska Native, has a nursing major, has its top Associates major in nursing, has its top Masters major in education, has its top major in nursing, is on the semester system, and enrolls from 1,000 to 4,999 students.

• average full-time teaching salary ($29,057)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($5,820)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($5,820)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($4,991)
• average undergrad student loan ($3,368)
• endowment per full-time student ($1,855)
• research spending ($0.0K)
• research spending per student ($0.0)
• Hispanics (99.6%)
• minorities (99.6%)
• undergrads who get financial aid (95%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (92%)
• full-time retention rate (70%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (61.7%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (16.4%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (5%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 1.4%)
• foreign students (0.4%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0%)
• Asians (0%)
• Blacks or African Americans (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -1.4%)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• first-year applicants (1,736)
• foreign students (11)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• yearly for-credit students (2,589)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (1.42)
• students per faculty member (22)
• annual rainfall (67.8 inches)
• elevation (51 meters)

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