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).

Nobel Prize in Physics

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
17
 44.7×
Columbia University NY
17
 44.7×
California Institute of Technology CA
14
 386.8×
Massachusetts Institute of Technology MA
14
 73.2×
University of Chicago IL
14
 66.6×
Princeton University NJ
10
 78.1×
University of California-Berkeley CA
10
 15.8×
Cornell University NY
6
 23.8×
Stanford University CA
6
 20.9×
CUNY City College NY
4
 15.9×
Yale University CT
4
 19.1×
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign IL
3
 4.2×
University of Minnesota MN
3
 2.6×
University of Rochester NY
3
 17.4×
University of Wisconsin-Madison WI
3
 3.8×

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
California Institute of Technology CA
1.7%
 14
University of Chicago IL
0.8%
 14
Columbia University NY
0.6%
 17
Massachusetts Institute of Technology MA
0.6%
 14
Princeton University NJ
0.5%
 10
University of California-Berkeley CA
0.4%
 10