College Outcomes Explorer

Main University Alumni (no named professional schools)

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Comparing main university alumni only — counts and multiples below are within that lens (switch it with the tabs at the top).

MacArthur Fellows Program

Which schools produce the most (left), and where it's the biggest part of the school's identity (right). "3×" = that school's notable alumni are three times as likely to have this award as the typical school's. People who attended recently weigh more than those from earlier eras.

Most alumni

SchoolAlumnivs. typical
Harvard University MA
140
 42.9×
University of California-Berkeley CA
69
 16.3×
Yale University CT
62
 43.8×
Princeton University NJ
57
 65.8×
Columbia University NY
51
 16.1×
Massachusetts Institute of Technology MA
46
 44.9×
Cornell University NY
36
 16.0×
University of Chicago IL
33
 15.8×
Stanford University CA
31
 15.1×
California Institute of Technology CA
28
 110.0×
University of Michigan MI
26
 5.0×
University of California-Los Angeles CA
25
 6.2×
University of Wisconsin-Madison WI
23
 4.5×
New York University NY
17
 3.5×
Brown University RI
16
 19.5×
University of Washington WA
16
 4.0×
University of Iowa IA
13
 3.1×
Swarthmore College PA
13
 69.5×
Johns Hopkins University MD
12
 5.3×
Duke University NC
12
 8.8×
Rhode Island School of Design RI
11
 54.3×
Oberlin College OH
10
 31.4×
Barnard College NY
10
 25.9×
University of Massachusetts-Amherst MA
10
 2.2×
The University of Texas at Austin TX
10
 1.8×
University of Pennsylvania PA
10
 3.3×
Brandeis University MA
9
 13.7×
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign IL
9
 1.7×
CUNY City College NY
9
 3.3×
University of Minnesota MN
9
 1.6×
Wesleyan University CT
9
 31.3×
Dartmouth College NH
9
 14.0×
University of Kansas KS
8
 2.1×
The Juilliard School NY
8
 71.4×
Amherst College MA
8
 33.1×
University of California-San Francisco CA
8
 22.6×
California Institute of the Arts CA
8
 54.0×
Williams College MA
7
 25.7×
University of Maryland-College Park MD
7
 1.5×
University of California-Santa Cruz CA
6
 3.7×

Biggest part of the school's identity

Shares are shrunk toward the national rate for small counts, and each school must clear the same size-scaled minimum (5–20 people) as the school pages.
School% of its noted alumniAlumni
Rhode Island School of Design RI
8.0%
 11
University of California-San Francisco CA
6.8%
 8
Swarthmore College PA
5.9%
 13
CUNY Graduate School and University Center NY
5.5%
 5
Wesleyan University CT
5.2%
 9
California Institute of Technology CA
5.1%
 28
Williams College MA
4.8%
 7
Oberlin College OH
4.6%
 10
Antioch College OH
4.4%
 6
California Institute of the Arts CA
4.3%
 8
University of Washington WA
4.3%
 16
School of the Art Institute of Chicago IL
4.2%
 6
Barnard College NY
4.2%
 10
Princeton University NJ
4.0%
 57
Amherst College MA
4.0%
 8
University of California-Berkeley CA
3.9%
 69
Yale University CT
3.7%
 62
University of California-Santa Cruz CA
3.7%
 6
Brandeis University MA
3.5%
 9
Massachusetts Institute of Technology MA
3.5%
 46
Cornell University NY
3.5%
 36
Harvard University MA
3.4%
 140
Bryn Mawr College PA
3.4%
 6
University of California-Los Angeles CA
3.3%
 25
University of California-Santa Barbara CA
3.3%
 5
University at Buffalo NY
3.3%
 5
Vassar College NY
3.2%
 5
Duke University NC
3.2%
 12
Brown University RI
3.2%
 16
University of Iowa IA
3.1%
 13
University of Massachusetts-Amherst MA
3.1%
 10
University of Wisconsin-Madison WI
3.1%
 23
CUNY City College NY
3.1%
 9
University of Kansas KS
3.0%
 8
University of Maryland-College Park MD
2.9%
 7
Columbia University NY
2.8%
 51
University of Chicago IL
2.8%
 33
University of Pittsburgh PA
2.8%
 5
Johns Hopkins University MD
2.8%
 12
The Juilliard School NY
2.6%
 8