beat out by Tennessee State Univ (108), Louisiana Tech Univ (63), and Saint Marys College of California (58).

Incidentally, all 4 grant doctorates.

beat Alcorn State Univ (52), Ohio Univ (38), Eastern Kentucky Univ (31), and Lamar Univ (25), and 171 others, ending with Herzing Univ-Birmingham (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. Information on majors and programs of study is from the Completions Data File, 2011-12 (Provisional release) as reported by the National Center for Education Statistics (http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds). Top majors are the ones that have the most conferred degrees. If it says "is in" rather than just "is", then various top majors were combined into a new attribute. For example, colleges whose top major is "in engineering" will include a college whose top major is chemical engineering, another whose top major is electrical engineering, and so on.
   

Marshall Univ is in Huntington, WV, is public, is in the Conference USA, grants doctorates, has a nursing major, has its top Associates major in nursing, 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 general studies, is on the semester system, its top Masters major is business/commerce, its top Doctoral major is medicine, and enrolls from 10,000 to 19,999 students.

• PayScale mid-career median salary ranking (716th place)
• Webometrics world ranking (1,196th place)
• research spending ($17.7M)
• average full-time teaching salary ($61,504)
• out-of-state undergrad tuition & fees ($13,930)
• average grant aid to undergrads ($7,926)
• endowment per full-time student ($7,616)
• average undergrad student loan ($6,011)
• in-state undergrad tuition & fees ($5,930)
• cost of a shared room ($4,936)
• research spending per student ($1,032)
• non-resident tuition & fees surcharge (134.9%)
• undergrads who get financial aid (94%)
• in-state freshmen (75.9%)
• undergrads among full-time students (72.1%)
• full-time retention rate (71%)
• undergrads who receive student loans (60%)
• ratio of female full-time freshmen (55.7%)
• undergrads who get Pell grants (45%)
• grad students who are under 25 years old (20.8%)
• undergrads who are 25 years or older (19%)
• average teaching salary differential (men vs. women, 17.1%)
• tuition & fees increase over three years (11.6%)
• minorities (7.4%)
• Blacks or African Americans (4.6%)
• disabled students (4%)
• foreign students (2%)
• Hispanics (1.4%)
• Asians (1.1%)
• American Indians or Alaska Natives (0.3%)
• average teaching salary differential (women vs. men, -14.6%)
• 25th percentile SAT math score (440)
• 25th percentile SAT reading score (450)
• 25th percentile SAT writing score (430)
• 75th percentile SAT math score (560)
• 75th percentile SAT reading score (550)
• 75th percentile SAT writing score (550)
• alumni who played in the National Football League (56)
• average January temperature (33.9 degrees)
• dorm capacity (2,510)
• first-year applicants (3,729)
• foreign students (349)
• full-time grad students (1,670)
• full-time undergrads (8,561)
• grad students (3,823)
• members of the National Academy of Sciences (0)
• men's basketball Final Four appearances (0)
• Rhodes Scholar alumni (1)
• total 75th percentile SAT score (1,660)
• undergrads (9,885)
• yearly for-credit students (17,130)
• on-campus yearly property crimes per thousand students (0.2)
• students per faculty member (19)
• annual rainfall (43.1 inches)
• diversity and inclusion ratio (0.18)
• elevation (173 meters)

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