after U of Houston (135, 46%), closest are Cal State-Fresno (118, 61%), Grambling State Univ (111, 82%), Tennessee State Univ (108, 78%), and U of Southern Mississippi (106, 49%), ending with National American Univ-Burnsville (0, 100%).

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 data on undergrad loans, financial aid, and Pell grants are from the Student Financial Aid Data File, 2011-12 (Provisional release) as reported by the National Center for Education Statistics (http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds).
   

U of Houston is in Houston, TX, is public, is in the Conference USA, research intensive, more than 50% Black, Hispanic, Asian, American Indian, or Alaska Native, has a law school, offers on-campus housing, plays division I/FBS football, has had a Final Four men's basketball team, 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 law, and enrolls 20,000 or more students.

• USNews law school ranking (48th place)
• USNews MBA ranking (96th place)
• PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (190th place)
• Webometrics world ranking (195th place)
• ARWU world ranking (201st place)
• Times Higher Education world ranking (301st place)
• research spending ($97.0M)
• average full-time teaching salary ($92,055)
• endowment per full-time student ($17,250)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($16,518)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($8,833)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($8,094)
• average undergrad student loan ($5,776)
• cost of a shared room ($5,353)
• research spending per student ($2,119)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (104.1%)
• in-state freshmen (94.5%)
• full-time retention rate (83%)
• undergrads who get financial aid (82%)
• undergrads among full-time students (80.4%)
• minorities (54.3%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (48.2%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (46%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (44%)
• grad students who are under 25 years old (34.3%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 32.8%)
• Hispanics (23.4%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (21.7%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (20.7%)
• Asians (18.7%)
• Blacks or African Americans (12%)
• foreign students (9.1%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.2%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -24.7%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (530)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (490)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (640)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (600)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (135)
• average January temperature (53.5 degrees)
• dorm capacity (6,048)
• first-year applicants (17,019)
• foreign students (4,168)
• full-time grad students (5,601)
• full-time undergrads (23,580)
• grad students (7,987)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (2)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (5)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• undergrads (32,760)
• yearly for-credit students (45,771)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (1.78)
• students per faculty member (22)
• annual rainfall (50.6 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.04)
• elevation (12 meters)

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