tied with Dixie State Univ (8.8 inches).

Incidentally, both are in a small city.

outdid Adams State Univ (9.0 inches), Colorado Mesa Univ (9.4 inches), CollegeAmerica-Stevens Henager College (10.4 inches), and Western State Colorado Univ (10.6 inches), and others, ending with U of Idaho (27.1 inches).

22 out of the other 117 colleges were ruled out due to missing, unknown, or not-applicable values for annual rainfall, e.g., U of Phoenix-Idaho Campus.

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. The regions of the country are divided into New England, Mid Atlantic, Southeast, Southwest, Far West, Rocky Mountains, Great Lakes, Plains, and Outlying Areas.
   

Stevens Henager College is in St. George, UT, is private and for-profit, open admission, degree-granting, and enrolls fewer than 1,000 students.

• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($16,795)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($16,795)
• average undergrad student loan ($7,582)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($3,973)
• endowment per full-time student ($0)
• undergrads who get financial aid (100%)
• in-state freshmen (100%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (95%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (80%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (52.5%)
• full-time retention rate (25%)
• minorities (17.3%)
• Hispanics (13.6%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (2.5%)
• Blacks or African Americans (1.2%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• foreign students (0%)
• Asians (0%)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (0)
• average January temperature (42.4 degrees)
• foreign students (0)
• full-time undergrads (101)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• undergrads (101)
• yearly for-credit students (81)
• students per faculty member (22)
• annual rainfall (8.8 inches)
• elevation (814 meters)

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