beat USC (461), Ohio State Univ (399), U of Michigan (341), and Penn State (338), and 3,117 others, ending with Florida Inst. of Technology-Florida Tech Online (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.
   

Notre Dame is in Notre Dame, IN, is private and nonprofit, is Roman Catholic, research intensive, a top-100 happiest school, accepts the Common Application, has a Phi Beta Kappa chapter, has a law school, has had a Final Four men's basketball team, offers on-campus housing, plays division I/FBS football, requires test scores for undergrad admissions, its top major is finance, is on the semester system, its top Masters major is business administration and management, its top Doctoral major is law, and enrolls from 10,000 to 19,999 students.

• USNews law school ranking (23rd place)
• PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (24th place)
• USNews MBA ranking (27th place)
• Wall St. Journal feeder school ranking (35th place)
• Times Higher Education world ranking (90th place)
• Webometrics world ranking (177th place)
• ARWU world ranking (201st place)
• research spending ($74.8M)
• endowment per full-time student ($511,233)
• average full-time teaching salary ($111,090)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($42,971)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($42,971)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($30,301)
• cost of typical room and board ($11,934)
• average undergrad student loan ($6,109)
• research spending per student ($5,890)
• full-time retention rate (97%)
• undergrads who get financial aid (71%)
• undergrads among full-time students (69.9%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (49%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (43%)
• grad students who are under 25 years old (36.1%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 31.3%)
• minorities (17.1%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (12%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (11.7%)
• foreign students (8.3%)
• Hispanics (8.3%)
• in-state freshmen (7.2%)
• Asians (5.5%)
• Blacks or African Americans (2.9%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.4%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (0.1%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -23.8%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (680)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (660)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (770)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (750)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (528)
• average January temperature (24.4 degrees)
• dorm capacity (6,481)
• first-year applicants (16,957)
• foreign students (1,051)
• full-time grad students (3,478)
• full-time undergrads (8,462)
• grad students (3,651)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (1)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (14)
• undergrads (8,475)
• yearly for-credit students (12,702)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (4.07)
• students per faculty member (10)
• annual rainfall (38.0 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.16)
• elevation (246 meters)

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