bested Minnesota School of Business-Elk River (13.2 degrees) and Brown College-Mendota Heights (14.7 degrees).

tied with U of Phoenix-Minneapolis/St Paul Campus (14.9 degrees).

Incidentally, all 4 are in Minnesota.

trailed Brown College-Brooklyn Center (15.2 degrees), ITT Technical Institute-Brooklyn Center (15.2 degrees), National American Univ-Brooklyn Center (15.2 degrees), and Minnesota School of Business-Brooklyn Center (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).
   

Strayer Univ-Minnesota is in St. Louis Park, MN, is private and for-profit, open admission, degree-granting, is on the quarter system, and enrolls fewer than 1,000 students.

• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($14,985)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($14,985)
• endowment per full-time student ($0)
• in-state freshmen (92.3%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• average January temperature (14.9 degrees)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• students per faculty member (4)
• annual rainfall (34.2 inches)
• elevation (268 meters)

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