beat out by U of Michigan (341) and Michigan State (274).

Incidentally, all 3 grant medical degrees.

beat Western Michigan Univ (44), Eastern Michigan Univ (37), Central Michigan Univ (28), and Grand Valley State Univ (16), and 71 others, ending with Adrian College (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. College geographic information is from the IPEDS Directory, 2012-13 (Provisional release) by the National Center for Education Statistics (http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds).
   

U of Detroit Mercy is in Detroit, MI, is private and nonprofit, is Roman Catholic, grants doctorates, grants medical degrees, has a law school, has a nursing major, has its top major in nursing, offers on-campus housing, requires test scores for undergrad admissions, is on the semester system, its top Masters major is business administration and management, its top Doctoral major is law, and enrolls from 5,000 to 9,999 students.

• PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (640th place)
• research spending ($1.4M)
• average full-time teaching salary ($80,133)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($34,530)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($34,530)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($22,848)
• average undergrad student loan ($7,542)
• cost of a shared room ($5,660)
• endowment per full-time student ($5,113)
• research spending per student ($217)
• undergrads who get financial aid (98%)
• in-state freshmen (88.8%)
• full-time retention rate (79%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (70%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (64.3%)
• undergrads among full-time students (54.8%)
• grad students who are under 25 years old (35.5%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (32%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (22.8%)
• minorities (22.1%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (19.4%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 15.7%)
• Blacks or African Americans (15.3%)
• foreign students (10.4%)
• Asians (4.4%)
• Hispanics (2.4%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -13.6%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (500)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (480)
• 25th percentile SAT writing score (480)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (640)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (610)
• 75th percentile SAT writing score (610)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (62)
• average January temperature (25.6 degrees)
• dorm capacity (965)
• first-year applicants (3,675)
• foreign students (654)
• full-time grad students (1,588)
• full-time undergrads (2,251)
• grad students (2,363)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• total 75th percentile SAT score (1,860)
• undergrads (2,868)
• yearly for-credit students (6,283)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (2.55)
• students per faculty member (13)
• annual rainfall (34.6 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.23)
• elevation (198 meters)

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