after Southern Univ and A&M College (76, 2,969), closest are U of Louisiana-Monroe (42, 2,641), McNeese State Univ (32, 2,964), Hardin-Simmons Univ (28, 1,823), and U of North Alabama (23, 2,419), ending with South Univ-Cleveland (0, 0).

1. The number of total first-year applicants 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).
   
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.
   

Southern Univ and A&M College is in Baton Rouge, LA, is public, is in the Southwestern Athletic Conference, historically black, a land-grant institution, grants doctorates, has a nursing major, has its top Doctoral major in education, has its top Masters major in nursing, has its top major in criminal justice, offers on-campus housing, requires test scores for undergrad admissions, is on the semester system, and enrolls from 5,000 to 9,999 students.

• PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (405th place)
• research spending ($9.9M)
• average full-time teaching salary ($61,326)
• cost of typical room and board ($7,846)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($5,812)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($5,812)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($4,650)
• average undergrad student loan ($4,532)
• endowment per full-time student ($1,251)
• research spending per student ($1,214)
• undergrads who get financial aid (100%)
• minorities (93.9%)
• Blacks or African Americans (91.9%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (88%)
• in-state freshmen (81%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (72%)
• full-time retention rate (69%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (56.7%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (41.7%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 18.9%)
• disabled students (4%)
• Asians (1.2%)
• Hispanics (0.7%)
• foreign students (0.3%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.1%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -15.9%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (400)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (490)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (76)
• average January temperature (51.7 degrees)
• dorm capacity (2,100)
• first-year applicants (2,969)
• foreign students (23)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• yearly for-credit students (8,151)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (6.09)
• students per faculty member (15)
• annual rainfall (60.6 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.06)
• elevation (20 meters)

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