after Bethune-Cookman Univ (39, $50,496), closest are U of Arkansas at Pine Bluff (26, $49,914), West Virginia Wesleyan College (20, $48,930), Carson-Newman Univ (18, $48,349), and Liberty Univ (17, $39,809), ending with Williamson Christian College (0, $3,939).

1. Teaching salaries for men and women are from the Salary Outlays for Full-time Instructional Staff by Contract Length, Gender, and Academic Rank: 2011-12 (Final/revised release) 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.
   

Bethune-Cookman Univ is in Daytona Beach, FL, is private and nonprofit, is in the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference, is United Methodist, degree-granting, historically black, has a nursing major, offers on-campus housing, requires test scores for undergrad admissions, its top major is psychology, is on the semester system, its top Masters major is organizational behavior studies, and enrolls from 1,000 to 4,999 students.

• PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (1,000th place)
• average full-time teaching salary ($50,496)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($14,410)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($14,410)
• endowment per full-time student ($12,107)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($9,705)
• cost of typical room and board ($8,548)
• average undergrad student loan ($6,637)
• research spending per student ($3)
• research spending ($0.0K)
• undergrads among full-time students (98.4%)
• undergrads who get financial aid (97%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (96%)
• minorities (94.6%)
• Blacks or African Americans (92.4%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (81%)
• in-state freshmen (64.5%)
• full-time retention rate (64%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (60.4%)
• grad students who are under 25 years old (45.6%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (11.4%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (6%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 5.2%)
• Hispanics (1.9%)
• foreign students (0.7%)
• Asians (0.2%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.1%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -5%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (360)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (360)
• 25th percentile SAT writing score (350)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (450)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (450)
• 75th percentile SAT writing score (440)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (39)
• average January temperature (56.8 degrees)
• dorm capacity (1,831)
• first-year applicants (5,380)
• foreign students (26)
• full-time grad students (42)
• full-time undergrads (3,351)
• grad students (57)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• total 75th percentile SAT score (1,340)
• undergrads (3,486)
• yearly for-credit students (3,885)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (2.92)
• students per faculty member (16)
• annual rainfall (51.8 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.01)
• elevation (1 meter)

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