Trying to decide how to pick the right college can be difficult but some may want to consider the weather around their school as a factor when deciding. Best College Reviews Reviews, a ranking service for American colleges and universities, has released a list of the 25 colleges with the best weather in the United States.
Best College Reviews collected data from the National Weather Service and took note of the average temperature and days without cloud cover to create the rankings. They also looked at what warm weather activities each campus offers.
Weather may not be a huge factor when it comes to deciding on a college but some may consider it after the brutal winter we had in 2013-2014. Weather could be a tiebreaking factor when a student is having trouble deciding between two colleges.
"Higher education is stressful enough, especially in today's expensive educational environment, that one could argue students may get more bang for their buck in a relaxing climate," James Arney, the article's author, said about the list. "The trend lately in higher education has been to pamper undergraduates with lavish dorms and recreation centers, but these 25 schools all boast amazing weather, which is something colleges either have or they don't. No amount of money can buy a frigid northeastern campus or a Malibu climate like Pepperdine's."
The list of 25 schools includes (in alphabetical order):
Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
Brigham Young University - Hawaii, Laie, HI
Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, FL
Florida International University, University Park, FL
Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, GA
Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA
Rice University, Houston, Texas
San Diego State University, San Diego, CA
San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA
Texas A&M - Corpus Christi, Corpus Christi, TX
Texas A&M - Galveston, Galveston, TX
University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
University of California - Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
University of California - Santa Barbara, CA
University of California - Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA
University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI
University of Miami, Miami, FL
University of Nevada Las Vegas, Las Vegas, NV
University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
University of Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
University of Tampa, Tampa, FL
University of Texas El Paso, El Paso, TX
University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
University of West Florida, Pensacola, FL
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