outdid Idaho State Univ (13.2 inches), U of Colorado Denver (17.1 inches), Texas Tech Univ Health Sciences Center (19.1 inches), and North Dakota State Univ (22.6 inches), and others, ending with U of Hawaii at Hilo (126.7 inches).

2 out of the other 45 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for annual rainfall, e.g., Purdue.

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.
   

Roseman U of Health Sciences is in Henderson, NV, is private and nonprofit, grants doctorates, grants medical degrees, has a nursing major, has its top major in nursing, its top Masters major is business administration and management, its top Doctoral major is pharmacy, and enrolls from 1,000 to 4,999 students.

• research spending ($1.3M)
• average full-time teaching salary ($101,243)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($27,636)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($27,636)
• endowment per full-time student ($9,535)
• research spending per student ($996)
• minorities (42.4%)
• Asians (33.3%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 16.4%)
• Blacks or African Americans (5.1%)
• Hispanics (3.6%)
• foreign students (3.2%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.4%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -14.1%)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• average January temperature (48.7 degrees)
• foreign students (41)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• yearly for-credit students (1,263)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (0)
• students per faculty member (5)
• annual rainfall (4.2 inches)
• elevation (582 meters)

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