beat Louisiana State Univ (300), U of Miami (299), U of Alabama (285), and U of Georgia (277), and 746 others, ending with Florida Inst. of Technology-Florida Tech Online (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 regions of the country are divided into New England, Mid Atlantic, Southeast, Southwest, Far West, Rocky Mountains, Great Lakes, Plains, and Outlying Areas.
   

U of Tennessee is in Knoxville, TN, is public, is in the Southeastern Conference, research intensive, a top-100 party school, a land-grant institution, accepts the Common Application, has a Phi Beta Kappa chapter, has a law school, has a nursing major, offers a Doctor of Medicine degree, offers on-campus housing, plays division I/FBS football, requires test scores for undergrad admissions, its top major is psychology, is on the semester system, its top Masters major is business administration and management, its top Doctoral major is pharmacy, and enrolls 20,000 or more students.

• USNews law school ranking (61st place)
• USNews MBA ranking (67th place)
• Forbes Best Buy ranking (80th place)
• Webometrics world ranking (133rd place)
• ARWU world ranking (151st place)
• PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (251st place)
• research spending ($197.6M)
• average full-time teaching salary ($88,070)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($27,582)
• endowment per full-time student ($23,828)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($9,092)
• cost of typical room and board ($8,752)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($8,041)
• research spending per student ($5,972)
• average undergrad student loan ($5,895)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (203.4%)
• undergrads who get financial aid (97%)
• in-state freshmen (89.9%)
• full-time retention rate (85%)
• undergrads among full-time students (70.1%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (51.1%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (43%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 31.2%)
• grad students who are under 25 years old (31%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (31%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (24.4%)
• minorities (12.5%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (8.9%)
• Blacks or African Americans (7.1%)
• foreign students (4.4%)
• Asians (2.8%)
• Hispanics (2.3%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.3%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -23.8%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (530)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (530)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (650)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (640)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (306)
• average January temperature (37.1 degrees)
• dorm capacity (7,534)
• first-year applicants (14,398)
• foreign students (1,442)
• full-time grad students (6,679)
• full-time undergrads (19,591)
• grad students (8,917)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (1)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (6)
• undergrads (20,916)
• yearly for-credit students (33,096)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (1.33)
• students per faculty member (17)
• annual rainfall (51.9 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.59)
• elevation (295 meters)

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