College Outcomes Explorer

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Where America's NBA players went to school — counting study at any level, so someone with a bachelor's from one school and a law degree from another counts at both. Where a size-adjusted view is shown, it divides by the school's typical size over recent decades, so small schools that punch above their weight can actually show it.

Most people in this group

SchoolPeople% of group
University of Kentucky KY
117
 2.7%
University of California-Los Angeles CA
93
 2.2%
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill NC
92
 2.2%
Duke University NC
91
 2.1%
University of Kansas KS
79
 1.9%
Indiana University IN
69
 1.6%
University of Arizona AZ
61
 1.4%
University of Michigan MI
58
 1.4%
Syracuse University NY
58
 1.4%
University of Notre Dame IN
57
 1.3%
University of Louisville KY
57
 1.3%
Michigan State University MI
55
 1.3%
University of Minnesota MN
54
 1.3%
North Carolina State University at Raleigh NC
52
 1.2%
Ohio State University OH
51
 1.2%
Villanova University PA
48
 1.1%
University of Maryland-College Park MD
46
 1.1%
St. John's University-New York NY
46
 1.1%
Louisiana State University LA
44
 1.0%
Georgetown University DC
43
 1.0%
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign IL
43
 1.0%
Marquette University WI
42
 1.0%
University of Southern California CA
42
 1.0%
University of Connecticut CT
41
 1.0%
Purdue University IN
40
 0.9%
University of Washington WA
39
 0.9%
Georgia Institute of Technology GA
38
 0.9%
University of Arkansas AR
37
 0.9%
Florida State University FL
37
 0.9%
University of Nevada-Las Vegas NV
36
 0.8%
University of Tennessee TN
36
 0.8%
University of Cincinnati OH
36
 0.8%
DePaul University IL
35
 0.8%
Stanford University CA
35
 0.8%
The University of Texas at Austin TX
35
 0.8%
University of Iowa IA
35
 0.8%
University of Florida FL
34
 0.8%
University of Memphis TN
33
 0.8%
University of Oregon OR
32
 0.8%
University of Missouri MO
32
 0.8%
University of Virginia VA
32
 0.8%
The University of Alabama AL
31
 0.7%
Wake Forest University NC
30
 0.7%
University of California-Berkeley CA
30
 0.7%
Providence College RI
30
 0.7%
University of Wisconsin-Madison WI
30
 0.7%
Iowa State University IA
30
 0.7%
Temple University PA
29
 0.7%
Western Kentucky University KY
29
 0.7%
University of Houston TX
29
 0.7%
Arizona State University AZ
28
 0.7%
Vanderbilt University TN
27
 0.6%
Auburn University AL
27
 0.6%
Oregon State University OR
27
 0.6%
University of Oklahoma OK
26
 0.6%
University of Utah UT
26
 0.6%
University of Colorado Boulder CO
26
 0.6%
University of South Carolina SC
25
 0.6%
Seton Hall University NJ
25
 0.6%
Boston College MA
24
 0.6%

Relative to school size (min 5 people)

SchoolPer 10,000 students in a typical yearPeople
Duke University NC 70.1 91
St Bonaventure University NY 65.1 17
Providence College RI 56.8 30
University of Notre Dame IN 52.0 57
Villanova University PA 45.4 48
Wake Forest University NC 45.3 30
University of Kentucky KY 44.8 117
Gonzaga University WA 40.1 22
University of Tulsa OK 40.1 19
College of the Holy Cross MA 39.8 11
University of Detroit Mercy MI 38.8 23
Marquette University WI 36.6 42
La Salle University PA 35.1 21
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill NC 35.1 92
Niagara University NY 31.1 12
Davidson College NC 30.3 5
Bradley University IL 30.1 17
University of Kansas KS 30.0 79
Saint Joseph's University - Philadelphia PA 29.4 20
Xavier University OH 29.2 19
Georgetown University DC 28.6 43
Syracuse University NY 28.0 58
University of San Francisco CA 27.1 22
University of Louisville KY 27.0 57
Jacksonville University FL 25.8 8
Seton Hall University NJ 25.3 25
Vanderbilt University TN 24.5 27
University of California-Los Angeles CA 24.1 93
St. John's University-New York NY 23.9 46
Creighton University NE 23.2 16
Pepperdine University CA 23.0 18
Saint Mary's College of California CA 22.9 8
Duquesne University PA 22.8 19
Rice University TX 22.3 12
Oklahoma City University OK 22.2 7
Stanford University CA 21.6 35
University of Portland OR 21.4 7
Drake University IA 21.3 12
Alcorn State University MS 20.4 6
University of Dayton OH 20.2 22