tied with Westwood College-Denver North, ITT Technical Institute-Westminster, and DeVry Univ-Colorado, all with 14.3 inches.

Incidentally, all 4 are in the suburbs of a large city.

outdid U of Northern Colorado (14.7 inches), Colorado State Univ-Fort Collins (15.0 inches), Johnson & Wales Univ-Denver (15.6 inches), and College America-Cheyenne (15.9 inches), and others, ending with Colorado Technical Univ-Colorado Springs (24.4 inches).

8 out of the other 51 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for annual rainfall, e.g., Colorado Heights Univ.

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.
   

DeVry Univ's Keller Graduate School of Management-Colorado is in Westminster, CO, is private and for-profit, degree-granting, is on the semester system, its top Masters major is business administration and management, and enrolls fewer than 1,000 students.

• endowment per full-time student ($0)
• minorities (25.7%)
• Blacks or African Americans (12%)
• Hispanics (8.4%)
• grad students who are under 25 years old (4.7%)
• Asians (4.2%)
• foreign students (1.9%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (1.1%)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• average January temperature (33.6 degrees)
• foreign students (9)
• full-time grad students (50)
• grad students (316)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• yearly for-credit students (476)
• annual rainfall (14.3 inches)
• elevation (1,611 meters)

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