outdid U of Phoenix-Las Vegas Campus (5.4 inches), U of Phoenix-Northern Nevada Campus (7.4 inches), U of Phoenix-Phoenix Campus (8.0 inches), and Cal State-Bakersfield (8.0 inches), and others, ending with Humacao Community College (107.1 inches).

25 out of the other 794 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.
   

DeVry Univ-Nevada is in Henderson, NV, is private and for-profit, degree-granting, more than 50% Black, Hispanic, Asian, American Indian, or Alaska Native, has its top major in business, is on the semester system, its top Associates major is electrical, electronic and communications engineering technology/technician, and enrolls fewer than 1,000 students.

• average full-time teaching salary ($53,731)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($16,156)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($16,156)
• average undergrad student loan ($8,275)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($4,021)
• endowment per full-time student ($0)
• undergrads who get financial aid (100%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (97%)
• in-state freshmen (92.3%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (77%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (71.7%)
• minorities (50.9%)
• full-time retention rate (46%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (32.1%)
• Hispanics (22.5%)
• Blacks or African Americans (20.9%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (9.1%)
• Asians (6.4%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 5.2%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (1.1%)
• foreign students (0.4%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -4.9%)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• average January temperature (48.7 degrees)
• first-year applicants (76)
• foreign students (2)
• full-time undergrads (153)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• undergrads (343)
• yearly for-credit students (546)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (0)
• students per faculty member (27)
• annual rainfall (4.2 inches)
• elevation (670 meters)

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