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).

Fellow of the American Physical Society

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
186
 51.9×
Massachusetts Institute of Technology MA
155
 86.0×
University of California-Berkeley CA
138
 23.1×
California Institute of Technology CA
114
 334.4×
Princeton University NJ
112
 92.8×
Cornell University NY
95
 39.9×
Stanford University CA
84
 30.9×
University of Chicago IL
76
 38.3×
Columbia University NY
57
 15.9×
Yale University CT
41
 20.7×
University of Wisconsin-Madison WI
27
 3.5×
The University of Texas at Austin TX
25
 2.9×
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign IL
24
 3.5×
Johns Hopkins University MD
23
 9.5×
University of Michigan MI
23
 3.3×
University of Minnesota MN
22
 2.0×
University of Rochester NY
20
 12.2×
New York University NY
20
 3.0×
University of Pennsylvania PA
17
 4.0×
Carnegie Mellon University PA
17
 12.7×
University of California-Los Angeles CA
16
 2.4×
CUNY City College NY
15
 6.3×
Ohio State University OH
13
 1.3×
Stony Brook University NY
12
 3.8×
Brown University RI
12
 8.7×
University of Washington WA
11
 1.6×
Rice University TX
11
 14.2×
University of Colorado Boulder CO
10
 2.2×
Swarthmore College PA
9
 35.7×
Case Western Reserve University OH
9
 5.7×
University of Maryland-College Park MD
9
 1.3×
University of California-San Diego CA
9
 3.0×
University of California-Santa Barbara CA
9
 2.8×
Syracuse University NY
9
 2.4×
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute NY
8
 6.6×
Purdue University IN
8
 1.2×
Northwestern University IL
8
 2.6×
CUNY Brooklyn College NY
7
 2.3×
University of Missouri MO
7
 1.5×
Duke University NC
7
 3.5×

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
14.1%
 114
Stony Brook University NY
7.7%
 12
University of Rochester NY
6.7%
 20
Massachusetts Institute of Technology MA
6.6%
 155
Illinois Institute of Technology IL
6.2%
 6
Cornell University NY
5.8%
 95
Princeton University NJ
5.5%
 112
University of California-Berkeley CA
5.1%
 138
Case Western Reserve University OH
4.8%
 9
Rice University TX
4.8%
 11
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute NY
4.7%
 8
University of California-Santa Barbara CA
4.5%
 9
University of Chicago IL
4.4%
 76
Carnegie Mellon University PA
4.3%
 17
University of Colorado Boulder CO
4.1%
 10
The University of Texas at Austin TX
4.0%
 25
CUNY City College NY
4.0%
 15
University of Connecticut CT
3.9%
 6
Stanford University CA
3.7%
 84
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign IL
3.4%
 24
Swarthmore College PA
3.2%
 9
University of California-Santa Cruz CA
3.1%
 5
Harvard University MA
3.1%
 186
University of California-San Diego CA
3.1%
 9
CUNY Brooklyn College NY
3.0%
 7
University of Minnesota MN
3.0%
 22
Iowa State University IA
3.0%
 7
University of Maryland-College Park MD
3.0%
 9
Johns Hopkins University MD
3.0%
 23
University of Utah UT
2.8%
 6
University of Missouri MO
2.7%
 7
Amherst College MA
2.6%
 7
Ohio State University OH
2.4%
 13
Bryn Mawr College PA
2.3%
 5
University of California-Davis CA
2.2%
 5
University of Wisconsin-Madison WI
2.2%
 27
Purdue University IN
2.1%
 8
Wesleyan University CT
2.1%
 5
Columbia University NY
2.0%
 57
Brandeis University MA
1.9%
 5