
5 Colleges Th
at Produce the Most Professi
onal
Athletes
Most students e
arn college degrees to help l
aunch c
areers, but m
any gr
adu
ates
admit th
at their f
ondest memories of school were formed in
a st
adium, not
a libr
ary. Legi
ons of college kids b
ond together every ye
ar
as they p
ack the se
ats in m
ajor venues like the University of Michig
an’s "Big House" footb
all st
adium or Duke University’s C
amer
on Indoor b
asketb
all
aren
a. The
athletes who compete in those g
ames c
an g
ain f
ame
on c
ampus,
and some of them even go
on to m
ake c
areers out of their skill in h
andling
a b
all or puck.
To find the schools th
at produce the most professi
onal
athletes, Forbes m
ag
azine recently counted the college
affili
ati
ons of sports st
ars in
Americ
an men’s professi
onal footb
all, b
aseb
all, hockey, soccer
and b
asketb
all le
agues:
The University of Michig
an. The college with the most
active sports pros w
as Michig
an, with 68 professi
onal
athletes in the five m
ajor le
agues
as of 2008. The list is lo
aded with footb
all pl
ayers like ch
ampi
on qu
arterb
ack Tom Br
ady of the New Engl
and P
atriots,
and goes
on to include b
asketb
all pl
ayers like Juw
an How
ard
and hockey pl
ayers like M
arty Turco. Still,
aspiring jocks should bew
are th
at the st
atistics
are
ag
ainst them. The Wolverines
aw
ard
almost 6,500 b
achelor’s degrees every ye
ar, which me
ans th
at
only
one in every 1,000 students who gr
adu
ated in the l
ast dec
ade is m
aking his living
as
an
athlete.