Tennessee State Univ is first with 108.

Incidentally, both are research intensive.

beat Weber State Univ (31), Idaho State Univ (25), Youngstown State Univ (23), and Liberty Univ (17), and 697 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.
   
2. Whether a college is open admission 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).
   

U of Toledo is in Toledo, OH, is public, is in the Mid-American Conference, open admission, research intensive, has a hospital, has a law school, has a nursing major, has its top Associates major in business, offers a Doctor of Medicine degree, offers on-campus housing, plays division I/FBS football, its top major is marketing/marketing management, is on the semester system, its top Masters major is finance, its top Doctoral major is medicine, and enrolls 20,000 or more students.

• PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (400th place)
• Webometrics world ranking (783rd place)
• research spending ($51.6M)
• average full-time teaching salary ($77,928)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($18,395)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($9,275)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($7,413)
• cost of a shared room ($6,338)
• average undergrad student loan ($6,223)
• endowment per full-time student ($2,321)
• research spending per student ($1,998)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (98.3%)
• in-state freshmen (85.3%)
• undergrads who get financial aid (82%)
• undergrads among full-time students (78.5%)
• full-time retention rate (62%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (57%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (39%)
• grad students who are under 25 years old (37.9%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 21.1%)
• minorities (21%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (16.3%)
• Blacks or African Americans (14.7%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (9.9%)
• foreign students (6.6%)
• Hispanics (3.7%)
• Asians (2.4%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.2%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -17.4%)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (57)
• average January temperature (27.5 degrees)
• dorm capacity (3,467)
• foreign students (1,709)
• full-time grad students (3,099)
• full-time undergrads (13,519)
• grad students (4,616)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• undergrads (16,837)
• yearly for-credit students (25,810)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (3.68)
• students per faculty member (19)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.11)
• elevation (181 meters)

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