after U of Memphis (99, 410), closest are Texas Southern Univ (61, 350), Texas A&M-Kingsville (51, 370), Arkansas State Univ (46, 400), and Bethune-Cookman Univ (39, 350), ending with U of Puerto Rico-Arecibo (0, 273).

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. College SAT data 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). Note that only about 41% of all colleges in this dataset reported at least one numeric SAT score.
   

U of Memphis is in Memphis, TN, is public, is in the Conference USA, research intensive, 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 on-campus housing, plays division I/FBS football, requires test scores for undergrad admissions, its top major is multi-/interdisciplinary studies, other, is on the semester system, its top Doctoral major is law, and enrolls 20,000 or more students.

• USNews law school ranking (144th place)
• PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (556th place)
• Webometrics world ranking (649th place)
• research spending ($35.2M)
• average full-time teaching salary ($72,577)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($22,616)
• endowment per full-time student ($10,756)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($8,806)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($7,904)
• average undergrad student loan ($5,177)
• cost of a shared room ($5,098)
• research spending per student ($1,329)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (186.1%)
• undergrads who get financial aid (96%)
• in-state freshmen (90.6%)
• undergrads among full-time students (79.7%)
• full-time retention rate (76%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (57%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (55.9%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (54%)
• minorities (43.1%)
• Blacks or African Americans (37.6%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 29.5%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (28.9%)
• grad students who are under 25 years old (18.8%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (17.9%)
• Asians (2.7%)
• foreign students (2.6%)
• Hispanics (2.5%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.3%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -22.8%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (440)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (440)
• 25th percentile SAT writing score (410)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (590)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (570)
• 75th percentile SAT writing score (560)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (99)
• average January temperature (38.9 degrees)
• dorm capacity (2,557)
• first-year applicants (6,798)
• foreign students (690)
• full-time grad students (2,147)
• full-time undergrads (12,728)
• grad students (4,486)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (3)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• total 75th percentile SAT score (1,720)
• undergrads (17,653)
• yearly for-credit students (26,464)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (1.86)
• students per faculty member (14)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.09)
• elevation (94 meters)

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