closest are North American College (32 meters, 52.0 inches), Chamberlain College of Nursing-Texas (32 meters, 52.0 inches), Texas A&M-Texarkana (97 meters, 52.0 inches), and Wiley College (119 meters, 50.2 inches), ending with Dine College (2,065 meters, 7.9 inches).

1 otherwise matching college was ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for annual rainfall.

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. Elevations are calculated by http://www.GPSVisualizer.com from the latitude and longitude from the IPEDS Directory, 2012-13 (Provisional release) by the National Center for Education Statistics (http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds).
   
3. The regions of the country are divided into New England, Mid Atlantic, Southeast, Southwest, Far West, Rocky Mountains, Great Lakes, Plains, and Outlying Areas.
   

U of Phoenix-Houston Campus is in Houston, TX, is private and for-profit, open admission, degree-granting, more than 50% Black, Hispanic, Asian, American Indian, or Alaska Native, has a nursing major, 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 ($51,442)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($11,992)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($11,992)
• average undergrad student loan ($8,554)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($4,746)
• endowment per full-time student ($0)
• in-state freshmen (99%)
• undergrads who get financial aid (96%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (92%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (87.7%)
• undergrads among full-time students (87.7%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (81%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 73.4%)
• minorities (50.7%)
• full-time retention rate (48%)
• Blacks or African Americans (34.5%)
• Hispanics (14.5%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (8.8%)
• grad students who are under 25 years old (2.9%)
• foreign students (1.8%)
• Asians (1.6%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.1%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -42.3%)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• foreign students (63)
• full-time grad students (276)
• full-time undergrads (1,968)
• grad students (276)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• undergrads (1,968)
• yearly for-credit students (3,429)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (0.2)
• students per faculty member (20)
• annual rainfall (52.9 inches)
• elevation (27 meters)

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