tied with Post Univ (23.4 degrees).

Incidentally, both are in the suburbs of a small city.

trailed U of Connecticut (25.8 degrees), Eastern Connecticut State Univ (26.1 degrees), Lincoln College of New England-Hartford (27.1 degrees), and Trinity College (27.1 degrees), and others, ending with Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts (30.6 degrees).

4 out of the other 33 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for average January temperature, e.g., U of Saint Joseph.

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. College geographic information is from the IPEDS Directory, 2012-13 (Provisional release) by the National Center for Education Statistics (http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds).
   

U of Connecticut-Tri-Campus is in Waterbury, CT, is public, degree-granting, accepts the Common Application, requires test scores for undergrad admissions, is on the semester system, and enrolls from 1,000 to 4,999 students.

• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($27,180)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($9,348)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($6,105)
• average undergrad student loan ($5,050)
• endowment per full-time student ($2,784)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (190.8%)
• in-state freshmen (100%)
• full-time retention rate (83%)
• undergrads who get financial aid (74%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (51%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (47.9%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (39%)
• minorities (30.4%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (18.2%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (14.2%)
• Hispanics (12.1%)
• Blacks or African Americans (9.7%)
• Asians (8.4%)
• foreign students (0.8%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.2%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (460)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (440)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (570)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (560)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• average January temperature (23.4 degrees)
• first-year applicants (757)
• foreign students (25)
• full-time undergrads (2,061)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• undergrads (2,631)
• yearly for-credit students (3,207)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (1.82)
• students per faculty member (17)
• annual rainfall (51.7 inches)
• elevation (77 meters)

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