beat out by U of Florida (270), U of Central Florida (45), Bethune-Cookman Univ (39), and U of South Florida (25).

Incidentally, all 5 are an NCAA member.

beat Florida International Univ (6), Florida Atlantic Univ (6), Valencia College (1), and Saint Leo Univ (1), and 131 others, ending with The Art Inst. of Fort Lauderdale (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. Distance calculations between two colleges use a mathematical formula for the distance on a sphere between two points.
   

U of Tampa is in Tampa, FL, is private and nonprofit, degree-granting, accepts the Common Application, has a nursing major, has its top major in business, offers on-campus housing, requires test scores for undergrad admissions, is on the semester system, its top Masters major is business administration and management, and enrolls from 5,000 to 9,999 students.

• PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (702nd place)
• average full-time teaching salary ($73,130)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($25,222)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($25,222)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($10,908)
• average undergrad student loan ($6,912)
• cost of a shared room ($4,852)
• endowment per full-time student ($3,599)
• research spending per student ($3)
• research spending ($0.0K)
• undergrads who get financial aid (94%)
• undergrads among full-time students (88.9%)
• full-time retention rate (74%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (59%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (57.7%)
• grad students who are under 25 years old (30.2%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (25%)
• in-state freshmen (22%)
• minorities (19.3%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (12.2%)
• Hispanics (11.6%)
• foreign students (10.2%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (7.6%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 7.4%)
• Blacks or African Americans (6.1%)
• Asians (1.4%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.2%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -6.9%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (500)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (480)
• 25th percentile SAT writing score (480)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (590)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (570)
• 75th percentile SAT writing score (570)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (14)
• average January temperature (60.8 degrees)
• dorm capacity (3,889)
• first-year applicants (14,730)
• foreign students (782)
• full-time grad students (278)
• full-time undergrads (5,799)
• grad students (769)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• total 75th percentile SAT score (1,730)
• undergrads (6,143)
• yearly for-credit students (7,691)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (3.47)
• students per faculty member (16)
• annual rainfall (46.3 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.04)
• elevation (5 meters)

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