beat out by U of Washington (251), U of Oregon (201), Oregon State (156), and Portland State Univ (29).

Incidentally, all 5 are a top-Green college.

beat Western Washington Univ (5), Willamette Univ (4), U of Portland (4), and Oregon Inst. of Technology (4), and 78 others, ending with The Art Inst. of Portland (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. Distance calculations between two colleges use a mathematical formula for the distance on a sphere between two points.
   

Linfield College-McMinnville Campus is in Mcminnville, OR, is private and nonprofit, is in the Northwest Conference, is American Baptist, degree-granting, offers on-campus housing, accepts the Common Application, has its top major in business, requires test scores for undergrad admissions, is on a four-one-four calendar, and enrolls from 1,000 to 4,999 students.

• USNews Liberal Arts College ranking (123rd place)
• PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (623rd place)
• average full-time teaching salary ($67,280)
• endowment per full-time student ($35,083)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($34,328)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($34,328)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($19,979)
• average undergrad student loan ($6,766)
• cost of a shared room ($5,180)
• research spending ($0.0K)
• research spending per student ($0.0)
• undergrads who get financial aid (98%)
• full-time retention rate (88%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (69%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (60%)
• in-state freshmen (48.1%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (30%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (18.2%)
• minorities (17.3%)
• foreign students (7.1%)
• Asians (7.1%)
• Hispanics (6.9%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 5.2%)
• Blacks or African Americans (1.8%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (1.5%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -4.9%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (490)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (480)
• 25th percentile SAT writing score (460)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (600)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (590)
• 75th percentile SAT writing score (575)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (6)
• average January temperature (40.7 degrees)
• dorm capacity (1,367)
• first-year applicants (2,338)
• foreign students (126)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (3)
• total 75th percentile SAT score (1,765)
• yearly for-credit students (1,776)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (3.0)
• students per faculty member (12)
• annual rainfall (41.7 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.16)
• elevation (47 meters)

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