
5 Colleges That Produce the Most Pr
ofessi
onal Athletes
Most students earn college degrees to help launch careers, but many graduates admit that their f
ondest memories
of school were formed in a stadium, not a library. Legi
ons
of college kids b
ond together every year as they pack the seats in major venues like the University
of Michigan’s "Big House" footb
all stadium or Duke University’s Camer
on Indoor
basketball arena. The athletes who compete in those games can gain fame
on campus, and some
of them even go
on to make careers out
of their skill in handling a b
all or puck.
To find the schools that produce the most pr
ofessi
onal athletes, Forbes magazine recently counted the college affiliati
ons
of sports stars in American men’s pr
ofessi
onal footb
all, baseb
all, hockey, soccer and
basketball leagues:
The University
of Michigan. The college with the most active sports pros was Michigan, with 68 pr
ofessi
onal athletes in the five major leagues as
of 2008. The list is loaded with footb
all players like champi
on quarterback Tom Brady
of the New England Patriots, and goes
on to include
basketball players like Juwan Howard and hockey
players like Marty Turco. Still, aspiring jocks should beware that the statistics are against them. The Wolverines award almost 6,500 bachelor’s degrees every year, which means that
only
one in every 1,000 students who graduated in the last decade is making his living as an athlete.