beat out by U of Tulsa (156), Holy Cross (73), Colgate (71), and Saint Marys College of California (58).

Incidentally, all 5 are an NCAA member.

beat Alcorn State Univ (52), Bucknell (42), U of Richmond (41), and Washington & Jefferson College (40), and 1,125 others, ending with Athens State 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. The college's size is from the IPEDS Directory, 2012-13 (Provisional release) by the National Center for Education Statistics (http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds).
   

South Carolina State Univ is in Orangeburg, SC, is public, is in the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference, research intensive, historically black, a land-grant institution, has a nursing major, has its top Doctoral major in education, offers on-campus housing, requires test scores for undergrad admissions, its top major is biology/biological sciences, is on the semester system, its top Masters major is rehabilitation and therapeutic professions, other, and enrolls from 1,000 to 4,999 students.

• PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (738th place)
• research spending ($8.3M)
• average full-time teaching salary ($60,836)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($18,170)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($9,258)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($9,176)
• average undergrad student loan ($7,191)
• cost of a shared room ($6,000)
• research spending per student ($1,655)
• endowment per full-time student ($193)
• undergrads who get financial aid (97%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (96.3%)
• minorities (94.8%)
• Blacks or African Americans (93.6%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (86%)
• undergrads among full-time students (85.8%)
• in-state freshmen (76.7%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (75%)
• full-time retention rate (61%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (53.2%)
• grad students who are under 25 years old (19.9%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (9.6%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (9.3%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 4.6%)
• Hispanics (0.6%)
• Asians (0.5%)
• foreign students (0.1%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.1%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -4.4%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (380)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (370)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (450)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (440)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (53)
• average January temperature (44.5 degrees)
• dorm capacity (2,052)
• first-year applicants (3,039)
• foreign students (7)
• full-time grad students (229)
• full-time undergrads (3,006)
• grad students (542)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• undergrads (3,265)
• yearly for-credit students (5,040)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (8.86)
• students per faculty member (14)
• annual rainfall (47.0 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.04)
• elevation (76 meters)

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