beat out by U of the Virgin Islands (78.8 degrees) and Inter American U of Puerto Rico-Guayama (78.2 degrees).

Incidentally, all 3 are in the Outlying Areas.

beat Inter American U of Puerto Rico-Fajardo (76.6 degrees), U of Puerto Rico-Aguadilla (75.8 degrees), U Teologica del Caribe (75.7 degrees), and Pontifical Catholic U of Puerto Rico-Mayaguez (75.6 degrees), and others, ending with Alaska Bible College (-5.0 degrees).

384 out of the other 3,121 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for average January temperature, e.g., American U of Puerto Rico.

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).
   

Dewey Univ is in Hato Rey, PR, is private and nonprofit, open admission, degree-granting, more than 50% Black, Hispanic, Asian, American Indian, or Alaska Native, has a nursing major, has its top Associates major in nursing, has its top major in nursing, is on the trimester system, and enrolls from 1,000 to 4,999 students.

• average full-time teaching salary ($20,455)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($5,475)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($5,475)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($5,180)
• endowment per full-time student ($0)
• Hispanics (100%)
• minorities (100%)
• undergrads who get financial aid (97%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (93%)
• full-time retention rate (71%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (9.5%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 0%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, 0%)
• foreign students (0%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0%)
• Asians (0%)
• Blacks or African Americans (0%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (0%)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• average January temperature (77.6 degrees)
• foreign students (0)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• yearly for-credit students (3,533)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (4.43)
• students per faculty member (19)
• annual rainfall (56.4 inches)
• elevation (5 meters)

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