bested Minnesota School of Business-Elk River (13.2 degrees) and Brown College-Mendota Heights (14.7 degrees).

tied with Strayer Univ-Minnesota (14.9 degrees).

Incidentally, all 4 are in Minnesota.

trailed Brown College-Brooklyn Center (15.2 degrees), ITT Technical Institute-Brooklyn Center (15.2 degrees), National American Univ-Brooklyn Center (15.2 degrees), and Minnesota School of Business-Brooklyn Center (15.2 degrees), and others, ending with U of Puerto Rico-Aguadilla (75.8 degrees).

120 out of the other 737 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for average January temperature, e.g., World Medicine Institute.

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. Whether a college is rural, suburban, or in a town, city, or big city, is from the IPEDS Directory, 2012-13 (Provisional release) by the National Center for Education Statistics (http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds).
   

U of Phoenix-Minneapolis/St Paul Campus is in Saint Louis Park, MN, 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 fewer than 1,000 students.

• PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (955th place)
• average full-time teaching salary ($17,804)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($12,520)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($12,520)
• average undergrad student loan ($8,805)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($5,530)
• endowment per full-time student ($0)
• undergrads who get financial aid (95%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (95%)
• in-state freshmen (94.7%)
• undergrads among full-time students (87.7%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (86%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (78.2%)
• minorities (29.4%)
• full-time retention rate (23%)
• Blacks or African Americans (20.6%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (12.7%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 5.1%)
• Hispanics (4.9%)
• grad students who are under 25 years old (2.9%)
• Asians (2.9%)
• foreign students (2%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (1%)
• 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 (14.9 degrees)
• foreign students (8)
• full-time grad students (34)
• full-time undergrads (243)
• grad students (34)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• undergrads (243)
• yearly for-credit students (408)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (0)
• students per faculty member (10)
• annual rainfall (34.2 inches)
• elevation (271 meters)

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