tied with U of St Thomas (57.0 inches).

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

outdid College of Biblical Studies-Houston (52.9 inches), Houston Baptist Univ (51.8 inches), Wiley College (50.2 inches), and East Texas Baptist Univ (50.2 inches), and others, ending with Phoenix Seminary (8.0 inches).

1 out of the other 68 colleges was ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for annual rainfall, i.e., U of Mary Hardin-Baylor.

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 regions of the country are divided into New England, Mid Atlantic, Southeast, Southwest, Far West, Rocky Mountains, Great Lakes, Plains, and Outlying Areas.
   
3. The college's religious affiliation (if any) is from the Institutional Characteristics Data File 2012-2013 (Provisional Release) as reported by the National Center for Education Statistics (http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds).
   

Houston Graduate School of Theology is in Houston, TX, is private and nonprofit, is of Multiple Protestant Denomination, more than 50% Black, Hispanic, Asian, American Indian, or Alaska Native, grants doctorates, is on the semester system, its top Masters major is divinity/ministry, its top Doctoral major is theology/theological studies, and enrolls fewer than 1,000 students.

• average full-time teaching salary ($43,164)
• endowment per full-time student ($0)
• research spending ($0.0K)
• research spending per student ($0.0)
• minorities (57.5%)
• Blacks or African Americans (47.9%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, 6.7%)
• foreign students (4.6%)
• Asians (4.6%)
• Hispanics (4.2%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.8%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, -6.3%)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• 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 (240)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (0)
• annual rainfall (57.0 inches)
• elevation (15 meters)

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