outdone by Eagle Gate College-Murray (26.5 inches), U of Phoenix-Utah Campus (26.5 inches), and Weber State Univ (22.3 inches).

tied with Eagle Gate College-Layton (22.0 inches).

Incidentally, all 5 are open admission.

outdid Rocky Mountain U of Health Professions (19.8 inches), Brigham Young-Provo (19.8 inches), Utah State Univ (19.7 inches), and Broadview Univ-Salt Lake City (18.6 inches), and others, ending with Dixie State Univ (8.8 inches).

13 out of the other 49 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for annual rainfall, e.g., U of Utah.

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. Distance calculations between two colleges use a mathematical formula for the distance on a sphere between two points.
   

Broadview Univ-Layton is in Layton, UT, is private and for-profit, open admission, degree-granting, has a massaging or bodywork program, has its top major in business, is on the quarter system, its top Associates major is veterinary/animal health technology/technician and veterinary assistant, and enrolls fewer than 1,000 students.

• average full-time teaching salary ($33,690)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($14,400)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($14,400)
• average undergrad student loan ($8,667)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($6,644)
• endowment per full-time student ($0)
• undergrads who get financial aid (100%)
• full-time retention rate (100%)
• in-state freshmen (100%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (88%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (75%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (59%)
• minorities (15.4%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, 10.4%)
• Hispanics (10.4%)
• Blacks or African Americans (2.2%)
• Asians (1.7%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (1.1%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• foreign students (0%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (-3.6%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, -9.4%)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• average January temperature (28.8 degrees)
• foreign students (0)
• full-time undergrads (83)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• undergrads (229)
• yearly for-credit students (460)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (0)
• students per faculty member (8)
• annual rainfall (22.0 inches)
• elevation (1,335 meters)

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