after Minnesota School of Business-Lakeville (15.5 degrees, 315 meters), closest are Bellevue Univ (22.6 degrees, 325 meters), Ursuline College (25.8 degrees, 322 meters), Baptist Bible College & Seminary of Pennsylvania (25.8 degrees, 407 meters), and Washington & Jefferson College (26.0 degrees, 337 meters), ending with U of Puerto Rico at Cayey (69.6 degrees, 423 meters).

13 out of the other 92 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for average January temperature, e.g., Geneva College.

1. Elevations are calculated by http://www.GPSVisualizer.com from the latitude and longitude from the IPEDS Directory, 2012-13 (Provisional release) by the National Center for Education Statistics (http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds).
   
2. 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).
   
3. 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-Lakeville is in Lakeville, MN, 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 medical/clinical assistant, and enrolls fewer than 1,000 students.

• average full-time teaching salary ($39,951)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($15,300)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($15,300)
• average undergrad student loan ($11,412)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($7,886)
• endowment per full-time student ($0)
• undergrads who get financial aid (100%)
• in-state freshmen (100%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (91%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (64%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (50.6%)
• full-time retention rate (50%)
• minorities (11.3%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, 5%)
• Hispanics (5%)
• Blacks or African Americans (3.7%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (2.4%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (1.3%)
• Asians (1.3%)
• foreign students (0.3%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, -4.8%)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• average January temperature (15.5 degrees)
• foreign students (1)
• full-time undergrads (127)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• undergrads (241)
• yearly for-credit students (381)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (1.75)
• students per faculty member (11)
• annual rainfall (31.3 inches)
• elevation (315 meters)

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