beat out by Michigan State (274), Arizona State (239), and San Diego State Univ (181).

Incidentally, all 4 play division I/FBS football.

beat Kansas State Univ (152), Cal State-Fresno (118), San Jose State Univ (114), and Wake Forest (111), and 1,832 others, ending with Amridge Univ (0).

1. 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.
   
2. Whether a college requires test scores (SAT or ACT) for undergraduate admission is from the Institutional Characteristics Data File 2012-2013 (Provisional Release) as reported by the National Center for Education Statistics (http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds).
   

U of Arizona is in Tucson, AZ, is public, research intensive, a top-100 party school, a land-grant institution, a top-100 happiest school, a member of the American Association of Universities, has a Phi Beta Kappa chapter, has a law school, has a nursing major, has had a Final Four men's basketball team, offers a Doctor of Medicine degree, offers on-campus housing, plays division I/FBS football, its top major is psychology, is on the semester system, its top Masters major is business administration and management, its top Doctoral major is medicine and law, and enrolls 20,000 or more students.

• USNews law school ranking (38th place)
• USNews MBA ranking (44th place)
• Webometrics world ranking (47th place)
• Forbes Best Buy ranking (77th place)
• ARWU world ranking (78th place)
• Times Higher Education world ranking (103rd place)
• PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (164th place)
• research spending ($385.5M)
• average full-time teaching salary ($91,850)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($26,231)
• endowment per full-time student ($15,326)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($10,035)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($9,748)
• research spending per student ($8,956)
• cost of a shared room ($6,784)
• average undergrad student loan ($5,875)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (161.4%)
• undergrads who get financial aid (84%)
• full-time retention rate (80%)
• undergrads among full-time students (78.5%)
• in-state freshmen (60.3%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (54.7%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (39%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (32%)
• minorities (29.9%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 25.5%)
• grad students who are under 25 years old (25.2%)
• Hispanics (19.5%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (17.8%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (8.7%)
• disabled students (6%)
• Asians (5.5%)
• foreign students (5.2%)
• Blacks or African Americans (3.3%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (1.6%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -20.3%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (490)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (480)
• 25th percentile SAT writing score (480)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (620)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (600)
• 75th percentile SAT writing score (600)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (167)
• average January temperature (53.3 degrees)
• dorm capacity (7,209)
• first-year applicants (26,854)
• foreign students (2,243)
• full-time grad students (6,505)
• full-time undergrads (28,210)
• grad students (8,658)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (11)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (4)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (24)
• total 75th percentile SAT score (1,820)
• undergrads (31,565)
• yearly for-credit students (43,038)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (1.4)
• students per faculty member (22)
• annual rainfall (11.6 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.18)
• elevation (742 meters)

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