beat Washington State Univ (165), Oklahoma State Univ (161), Grambling State Univ (111), and Miami of Ohio (72), and 402 others, ending with Kaplan Univ-Augusta Campus (0).

1. Whether a college is rural, suburban, or in a town, city, or big city, is from the IPEDS Directory, 2012-13 (Provisional 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.
   

U of Mississippi is in Univ, MS, is public, is in the Southeastern Conference, research intensive, a top-100 party school, has a Phi Beta Kappa chapter, has a law school, has its top Masters major in education, has its top major in education, offers on-campus housing, plays division I/FBS football, requires test scores for undergrad admissions, is on the semester system, its top Doctoral major is law, and enrolls from 10,000 to 19,999 students.

• Forbes Best Buy ranking (18th place)
• USNews MBA ranking (101st place)
• USNews law school ranking (102nd place)
• Webometrics world ranking (506th place)
• PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (655th place)
• research spending ($52.4M)
• average full-time teaching salary ($75,485)
• endowment per full-time student ($25,280)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($16,266)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($7,130)
• average undergrad student loan ($6,601)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($6,282)
• cost of a shared room ($4,150)
• research spending per student ($2,497)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (158.9%)
• undergrads among full-time students (85.5%)
• undergrads who get financial aid (81%)
• full-time retention rate (81%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (57.7%)
• in-state freshmen (48.4%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (45%)
• grad students who are under 25 years old (40.2%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 28.9%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (27%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (24.6%)
• minorities (20.8%)
• Blacks or African Americans (16.8%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (11%)
• foreign students (4.6%)
• Hispanics (2.2%)
• Asians (1.5%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.3%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -22.4%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (480)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (480)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (600)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (600)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (199)
• average January temperature (40.5 degrees)
• dorm capacity (5,268)
• first-year applicants (13,934)
• foreign students (974)
• full-time grad students (2,016)
• full-time undergrads (14,933)
• grad students (2,734)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (25)
• undergrads (16,060)
• yearly for-credit students (20,990)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (2.05)
• students per faculty member (19)
• annual rainfall (59.2 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.03)
• elevation (140 meters)

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