beat U of Hawaii at Manoa (72.9 degrees), U of Miami (68.9 degrees), Florida International Univ (66.6 degrees), and Nova Southeastern Univ (66.3 degrees), and others, ending with U of North Dakota (7.4 degrees).

18 out of the other 175 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for average January temperature, e.g., Ponce School of Medicine and 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. Medical degrees include Medicine, Dentistry, Osteopathic Medicine, and Veterinary Medicine and are from the IPEDS Directory, 2012-13 (Provisional release) by the National Center for Education Statistics (http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds).
   

U of Puerto Rico-Medical Sciences is in San Juan, PR, is public, more than 50% Black, Hispanic, Asian, American Indian, or Alaska Native, grants doctorates, has a hospital, has a nursing major, has its top major in nursing, offers a Doctor of Medicine degree, is on the semester system, its top Masters major is public health, its top Doctoral major is medicine, its top Associates major is radiologic technology/science - radiographer, and enrolls from 1,000 to 4,999 students.

• research spending ($42.4M)
• average full-time teaching salary ($70,686)
• research spending per student ($17,959)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($7,841)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($5,698)
• endowment per full-time student ($0)
• Hispanics (98.5%)
• minorities (98.5%)
• grad students who are under 25 years old (41.6%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (37.6%)
• undergrads among full-time students (21%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 13.3%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (9.5%)
• foreign students (0%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0%)
• Asians (0%)
• Blacks or African Americans (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -11.8%)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• average January temperature (75.5 degrees)
• foreign students (0)
• full-time grad students (1,696)
• full-time undergrads (438)
• grad students (1,794)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• undergrads (476)
• yearly for-credit students (2,363)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (0.7)
• students per faculty member (3)
• annual rainfall (70.8 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.08)
• elevation (24 meters)

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