after Texas A&M-Kingsville (51, 92%), closest are Bethune-Cookman Univ (39, 96%), Ferrum College (13, 99%), Lincoln Univ (11, 93%), and Waynesburg Univ (11, 93%), ending with Bryant & Stratton College-Online (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).
   

Texas A&M-Kingsville is in Kingsville, TX, is public, is in the Lone Star Conference, research intensive, more than 50% Black, Hispanic, Asian, American Indian, or Alaska Native, has its top Doctoral major in education, has its top Masters major in education, offers on-campus housing, requires test scores for undergrad admissions, its top major is multi-/interdisciplinary studies, other, is on the semester system, and enrolls from 10,000 to 19,999 students.

• PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (606th place)
• research spending ($12.8M)
• average full-time teaching salary ($59,809)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($17,470)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($10,045)
• cost of typical room and board ($6,940)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($6,940)
• average undergrad student loan ($6,007)
• endowment per full-time student ($2,004)
• research spending per student ($1,034)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (151.7%)
• in-state freshmen (97.5%)
• undergrads who get financial aid (95%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (92%)
• undergrads among full-time students (78.8%)
• minorities (72%)
• Hispanics (64.9%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (63%)
• full-time retention rate (61%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (43.7%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (34.4%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 23%)
• grad students who are under 25 years old (22.6%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (7.4%)
• Blacks or African Americans (5.8%)
• foreign students (4.2%)
• Asians (1.1%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.2%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -18.7%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (420)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (380)
• 25th percentile SAT writing score (370)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (528)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (480)
• 75th percentile SAT writing score (470)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (51)
• average January temperature (57.2 degrees)
• dorm capacity (2,329)
• first-year applicants (4,919)
• foreign students (523)
• full-time grad students (922)
• full-time undergrads (6,299)
• grad students (2,401)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (0)
• total 75th percentile SAT score (1,478)
• undergrads (8,949)
• yearly for-credit students (12,420)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (2.66)
• students per faculty member (19)
• annual rainfall (30.4 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.06)
• elevation (21 meters)

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