after Carson-Newman Univ (18, $48,349), closest are Liberty Univ (17, $39,809), Bethany College (9, $47,750), Salem International Univ (8, $37,699), and Wiley College (5, $46,202), ending with Williamson Christian College (0, $3,939).

1. Teaching salaries for men and women are from the Salary Outlays for Full-time Instructional Staff by Contract Length, Gender, and Academic Rank: 2011-12 (Final/revised 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.
   

Carson-Newman Univ is in Jefferson City, TN, is private and nonprofit, is in the South Atlantic Conference, is Baptist, degree-granting, has a nursing major, has its top major in nursing, offers on-campus housing, requires test scores for undergrad admissions, is on the semester system, its top Masters major is counseling psychology, and enrolls from 1,000 to 4,999 students.

• PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (796th place)
• average full-time teaching salary ($48,349)
• endowment per full-time student ($25,608)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($22,652)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($22,652)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($15,664)
• average undergrad student loan ($5,816)
• cost of a shared room ($2,566)
• research spending ($0.0K)
• research spending per student ($0.0)
• undergrads who get financial aid (99%)
• undergrads among full-time students (83.7%)
• in-state freshmen (77%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (64%)
• full-time retention rate (60%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (50.4%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (38%)
• grad students who are under 25 years old (24.3%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (21.1%)
• minorities (10.2%)
• Blacks or African Americans (7.9%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 7.8%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (6.3%)
• foreign students (5.5%)
• Hispanics (1.6%)
• Asians (0.5%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.2%)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (0%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -7.2%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (440)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (455)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (555)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (560)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (18)
• average January temperature (34.4 degrees)
• dorm capacity (1,290)
• first-year applicants (2,917)
• foreign students (120)
• full-time grad students (121)
• full-time undergrads (1,573)
• grad students (321)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• undergrads (1,646)
• yearly for-credit students (2,182)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (5.04)
• students per faculty member (12)
• annual rainfall (45.8 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.01)
• elevation (354 meters)

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