Colleges & Universities of Excellence
The Colleges & Universities of Excellence program is a targeted approach connecting 93,000 of the best and brightest students in the country with colleges and universities that support the NFL mission to promote education and effective communication.
The 2008-2009 Colleges and Universities of Excellence
The following institutions have joined the program and have agreed to give scholarships to NFL student members. 
Arizona State University (AZ)
Colorado College (CO)
Doane College (NE)
Eastern Michigan University (MI)
George Mason University (VA)
Gustavas Adolphus College (MN)
Kansas State University
Minnesota State University, Mankato (MN)
Ohio University (OH)
Pepperdine University (CA)
Point Loma Nazarene University (CA)
Ripon College (WI)
University of Alabama (AL)
University of Iowa (IA)
University of Nebraska, Omaha (NE)
University of Nevada, Las Vegas (NV)
University of Southern California (CA)
University of Texas at Austin (TX)
West Texas A&M University (TX)
Western Kentucky University (KY)
Colleges and universities continually strive to attract high achieving, highly motivated and talented students. For this reason, NFL is creating partnerships with institutions across the country to provide college connections and scholarships to students.
How do students benefit from this program?
- Join the program and be considered for thousands of dollars in scholarships from top universities and colleges
- Have top institutions seek you out for being a high achieving NFL student member
- Receive one on one attention from college recruiters and faculty members at participating institutions.
Please note: Students do not have to participate in college forensics to sign up for the Colleges and Universities of Excellence Program.
Students, to join and be considered for college scholarships, click here.
Coaches and students should contact Heidi Christensen with questions about this program.
How do participating institutions benefit from this program?
Each college and university in the program receives exclusive access to the database with the names of students that have actively joined the Colleges and Universities of Excellence program, including ways to contact them, GPA/ACT/SAT scores, academic interests, events they have competed in during their high school forensics career, and graduation year.
- The NFL will provide each participating institution with a recruitment booth at the 2008 and 2009 NFL College Fairs, which are held in June each year at the NFL National Tournament. Each both will have access to over 4,000 coaches and students.
- The NFL will create posters, mailers, and brochures which advertise the participating institutions. These advertisements will be distributed to over 3,000 high schools and viewed by over 91,000 NFL students throughout the school year.
- The NFL will feature the program in every issue of its monthly magazine, Rostrum and its semi annual alumni publication, Alumni Connection. Additionally, in one issue in the fall and one issue in the spring, every participating institution will receive one, free full page advertisement highlighting your specific institution.
Having such well-rounded and empirically successful students enables the NFL to connect its members with interested schools and scholarship dollars. From there, Colleges and universities that have created NFL specific scholarships will contact students about the opportunities available at their school.
Colleges and universities who would like more information about connecting with NFL students should contact Adam Jacobi, Coordinator of Member Programs and Coach Education.
