trailed Brown College-Mendota Heights (14.7 degrees), U of Phoenix-Minneapolis/St Paul Campus (14.9 degrees), Strayer Univ-Minnesota (14.9 degrees), and Herzing Univ-Minneapolis (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).
   

Minnesota School of Business-Elk River is in Elk River, MN, is private and for-profit, open admission, degree-granting, has a massaging or bodywork program, has its top Associates major in business, has its top major in business, is on the quarter system, and enrolls fewer than 1,000 students.

• average full-time teaching salary ($38,171)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($15,300)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($15,300)
• average undergrad student loan ($13,542)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($7,130)
• endowment per full-time student ($0)
• undergrads who get financial aid (100%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (100%)
• full-time retention rate (100%)
• in-state freshmen (100%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (68.6%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (59%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (9%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 5.1%)
• minorities (4.3%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (1.3%)
• Blacks or African Americans (1.3%)
• Hispanics (1.2%)
• Asians (0.5%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• foreign students (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -4.9%)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• average January temperature (13.2 degrees)
• foreign students (0)
• full-time undergrads (148)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• undergrads (370)
• yearly for-credit students (607)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (0)
• students per faculty member (12)
• annual rainfall (31.9 inches)
• elevation (288 meters)

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