U of Nevada-Las Vegas is first with 4.2 inches.

Incidentally, neither requires test scores for undergrad admissions.

outdid Arizona State (9.3 inches), U of New Mexico (9.4 inches), Thomas Jefferson School of Law (10.3 inches), and California Western School of Law (10.3 inches), and others, ending with Inter American U of Puerto Rico-School of Law (70.8 inches).

8 out of the other 193 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. 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.
   

Phoenix School of Law is in Phoenix, AZ, is private and for-profit, grants doctorates, has a law school, is on the semester system, its top Doctoral major is law, and enrolls from 1,000 to 4,999 students.

• average full-time teaching salary ($85,222)
• endowment per full-time student ($0)
• minorities (27.5%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 17.9%)
• Hispanics (14.9%)
• Blacks or African Americans (7.3%)
• Asians (4.4%)
• foreign students (1.1%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.9%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -15.2%)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• average January temperature (57.1 degrees)
• foreign students (12)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• yearly for-credit students (1,079)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (0)
• annual rainfall (8.2 inches)
• elevation (331 meters)

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