beat out by Notre Dame (528) and USC (461).

Incidentally, all 3 have had a Final Four men's basketball team.

beat U of Michigan (341), Penn State (338), U of Nebraska-Lincoln (330), and U of Oklahoma (317), and 3,115 others, ending with Amridge Univ (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.
   

Ohio State Univ is in Columbus, OH, is public, is in the Big Ten Conference, research intensive, a top-100 party school, a land-grant institution, a member of the American Association of Universities, accepts the Common Application, has a Phi Beta Kappa chapter, has a hospital, has a law school, has a nursing major, has had a Final Four men's basketball team, has its top Masters major in education, offers a Doctor of Medicine degree, offers on-campus housing, plays division I/FBS football, requires test scores for undergrad admissions, its top major is psychology, is on the semester system, its top Doctoral major is law, and enrolls 20,000 or more students.

• USNews MBA ranking (27th place)
• USNews law school ranking (36th place)
• Webometrics world ranking (38th place)
• Times Higher Education world ranking (59th place)
• ARWU world ranking (65th place)
• Forbes Best Buy ranking (83rd place)
• PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (356th place)
• research spending ($429.7M)
• average full-time teaching salary ($106,086)
• endowment per full-time student ($33,910)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($25,445)
• cost of typical room and board ($11,182)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($10,037)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($7,904)
• average undergrad student loan ($7,034)
• research spending per student ($6,618)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (153.5%)
• full-time retention rate (92%)
• undergrads who get financial aid (84%)
• undergrads among full-time students (76.4%)
• in-state freshmen (75.2%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (48.7%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (48%)
• grad students who are under 25 years old (38.3%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (21%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 19.2%)
• minorities (14.7%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (14.4%)
• foreign students (9.9%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (8.2%)
• Blacks or African Americans (6.3%)
• Asians (5.2%)
• Hispanics (3%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.2%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -16.1%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (610)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (540)
• 25th percentile SAT writing score (550)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (710)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (650)
• 75th percentile SAT writing score (650)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (399)
• average January temperature (28.4 degrees)
• dorm capacity (10,936)
• first-year applicants (25,816)
• foreign students (6,404)
• full-time grad students (10,116)
• full-time undergrads (38,884)
• grad students (13,329)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (11)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (11)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (5)
• total 75th percentile SAT score (2,010)
• undergrads (43,058)
• yearly for-credit students (64,930)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (1.22)
• students per faculty member (19)
• annual rainfall (39.0 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.24)
• elevation (229 meters)

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