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).

Presidential Medal of Freedom

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
40
 4.2×
Columbia University NY
34
 4.1×
Yale University CT
30
 9.5×
Princeton University NJ
20
 4.8×
University of California-Berkeley CA
18
 1.6×
Stanford University CA
16
 26.9×
CUNY City College NY
12
 2.2×
University of Chicago IL
11
 2.2×
University of Wisconsin-Madison WI
11
 2.2×
United States Naval Academy MD
11
 8.0×
United States Military Academy NY
11
 6.0×
Cornell University NY
10
 2.3×
University of California-Los Angeles CA
8
 1.6×
New York University NY
8
 1.1×
University of Minnesota MN
8
 0.9×
University of Southern California CA
8
 1.3×
Massachusetts Institute of Technology MA
7
 2.1×
Georgetown University DC
7
 2.5×
George Washington University DC
7
 1.6×
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill NC
6
 2.4×
The University of Texas at Austin TX
6
 1.0×
The Juilliard School NY
6
 35.5×
University of Michigan MI
6
 1.2×
Howard University DC
6
 1.8×
The University of Alabama AL
6
 1.1×
Northwestern University IL
5
 1.1×
Oberlin College OH
5
 2.5×
Duke University NC
5
 4.2×
University of Colorado Boulder CO
5
 1.6×
Vassar College NY
5
 7.6×
University of Arizona AZ
5
 1.1×
Syracuse University NY
5
 1.7×
Bates College ME
5
 5.5×
The New School NY
4
 1.3×
Dartmouth College NH
4
 2.2×
Vanderbilt University TN
4
 2.3×
Johns Hopkins University MD
4
 1.3×
Boston University MA
4
 0.9×
Swarthmore College PA
4
 11.0×
Ohio State University OH
4
 1.7×

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
Stanford University CA
0.6%
 16
United States Naval Academy MD
0.3%
 11
CUNY City College NY
0.3%
 12
University of Colorado Boulder CO
0.3%
 5
United States Military Academy NY
0.3%
 11
University of Wisconsin-Madison WI
0.3%
 11
Vassar College NY
0.2%
 5
Yale University CT
0.2%
 30
Bates College ME
0.2%
 5
Howard University DC
0.2%
 6
The Juilliard School NY
0.2%
 6
Columbia University NY
0.2%
 34
The University of Alabama AL
0.2%
 6
University of Arizona AZ
0.2%
 5
Cornell University NY
0.1%
 10
Oberlin College OH
0.1%
 5
University of Chicago IL
0.1%
 11
Harvard University MA
0.1%
 40
Princeton University NJ
0.1%
 20
University of California-Berkeley CA
0.1%
 18