outdid U of Phoenix-Northern Nevada Campus (7.4 inches), U of Phoenix-Phoenix Campus (8.0 inches), Cal State-Bakersfield (8.0 inches), and U of Phoenix-Online Campus (8.0 inches), and others, ending with U of Phoenix-Puerto Rico Campus (70.8 inches).

17 out of the other 620 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for annual rainfall, e.g., William Jessup Univ.

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.
   

U of Phoenix-Las Vegas Campus is in Las Vegas, NV, is private and for-profit, open admission, degree-granting, has its top major in business, its top Masters major is business administration and management, and enrolls from 1,000 to 4,999 students.

• average full-time teaching salary ($29,161)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($11,615)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($11,615)
• average undergrad student loan ($8,599)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($4,747)
• endowment per full-time student ($0)
• in-state freshmen (100%)
• undergrads who get financial aid (98%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (96%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (86%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (81.8%)
• undergrads among full-time students (79.8%)
• full-time retention rate (67%)
• minorities (35%)
• Blacks or African Americans (17.9%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (15.5%)
• Hispanics (13.7%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 10.1%)
• Asians (2.9%)
• grad students who are under 25 years old (2%)
• foreign students (1.4%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.5%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -9.1%)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• average January temperature (48.0 degrees)
• foreign students (51)
• full-time grad students (512)
• full-time undergrads (2,019)
• grad students (512)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• undergrads (2,019)
• yearly for-credit students (3,729)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (0.1)
• students per faculty member (21)
• annual rainfall (5.4 inches)
• elevation (755 meters)

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