beat out by Millennia Atlantic Univ (68.2 degrees), American InterContinental Univ-South Florida (66.2 degrees), Everest Univ-Lakeland (61.9 degrees), and Schiller International Univ (61.4 degrees).

Incidentally, all 5 are in Florida.

beat Western International Univ (54.6 degrees), Jones College-Jacksonville (54.1 degrees), Strayer Univ-Texas (48.9 degrees), and Dallas Christian College (47.0 degrees), and others, ending with Mayville State Univ (6.8 degrees).

18 out of the other 134 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for average January temperature, e.g., Globe Inst. of Technology.

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.
   

Strayer Univ-Florida is in Tampa, FL, is private and for-profit, open admission, degree-granting, has its top Associates major in business, has its top major in business, is on the quarter system, its top Masters major is business administration and management, and enrolls from 1,000 to 4,999 students.

• average full-time teaching salary ($57,137)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($14,985)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($14,985)
• average undergrad student loan ($3,611)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($1,929)
• endowment per full-time student ($0)
• in-state freshmen (93.6%)
• full-time retention rate (50%)
• minorities (49.6%)
• undergrads who get financial aid (40%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (40%)
• Blacks or African Americans (36.7%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (30%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (11.9%)
• Hispanics (11.6%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, 2%)
• Asians (1%)
• foreign students (0.9%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.3%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, -2%)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• average January temperature (60.8 degrees)
• foreign students (52)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• yearly for-credit students (5,563)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (0.1)
• students per faculty member (11)
• annual rainfall (46.3 inches)
• elevation (3 meters)

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