after Auburn Univ (233, 2,645), closest are U of Colorado Boulder (217, 2,436), U of Arkansas (212, 1,709), U of Mississippi (199, 2,016), and Baylor (190, 2,115), ending with Elizabethtown College School of Continuing and Professional Studies (0, 0).

1. Information on numbers and ages of the undergrad and graduate student body is from the file enrollment by age, gender, attendance status, and level of student: Fall 2012 (Provisional release) as reported by the National Center for Education Statistics (http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds).
   
2. Using listings on college alumni who reached the NFL from http://www.pro-football-reference.com/colleges/ and other websites like Wikipedia, we matched each player's colleges-attended with a specific institution as designated in the federal IPEDS database. Some interpretation and error correction were needed because sometimes colleges merge, close down, change names, and share identical names across different states.
   

Auburn Univ is in Auburn Univ, AL, is public, is in the Southeastern Conference, research intensive, a top-100 party school, a land-grant institution, grants medical degrees, has a Phi Beta Kappa chapter, has a nursing major, has its top major in business, offers on-campus housing, plays division I/FBS football, requires test scores for undergrad admissions, is on the semester system, its top Masters major is business administration and management, its top Doctoral major is pharmacy, and enrolls 20,000 or more students.

• Forbes Best Buy ranking (74th place)
• USNews MBA ranking (75th place)
• PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (151st place)
• Webometrics world ranking (317th place)
• ARWU world ranking (401st place)
• research spending ($122.6M)
• average full-time teaching salary ($85,845)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($25,190)
• endowment per full-time student ($19,214)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($10,797)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($9,446)
• average undergrad student loan ($6,485)
• cost of a shared room ($5,500)
• research spending per student ($4,535)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (166.7%)
• full-time retention rate (90%)
• undergrads among full-time students (80.3%)
• undergrads who get financial aid (79%)
• in-state freshmen (61%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (52.5%)
• grad students who are under 25 years old (35.7%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (33%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (29.5%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 27.8%)
• minorities (13.2%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (13%)
• Blacks or African Americans (8%)
• foreign students (4.3%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (4.1%)
• Hispanics (2.6%)
• Asians (2%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.6%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -21.8%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (550)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (530)
• 25th percentile SAT writing score (520)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (650)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (630)
• 75th percentile SAT writing score (610)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (233)
• average January temperature (45.0 degrees)
• dorm capacity (3,986)
• first-year applicants (17,463)
• foreign students (1,152)
• full-time grad students (2,645)
• full-time undergrads (18,449)
• grad students (4,959)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (4)
• total 75th percentile SAT score (1,890)
• undergrads (20,175)
• yearly for-credit students (27,046)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (0.7)
• students per faculty member (18)
• annual rainfall (52.6 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.10)
• elevation (193 meters)

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