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
177
 42.7×
Massachusetts Institute of Technology MA
140
 82.2×
University of California-Berkeley CA
126
 19.9×
California Institute of Technology CA
107
 326.5×
Princeton University NJ
106
 123.8×
Cornell University NY
88
 16.5×
Stanford University CA
79
 20.5×
University of Chicago IL
73
 11.5×
Columbia University NY
55
 3.6×
Yale University CT
36
 7.1×
University of Wisconsin-Madison WI
24
 4.8×
Johns Hopkins University MD
23
 8.2×
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign IL
23
 1.7×
University of Minnesota MN
21
 2.0×
The University of Texas at Austin TX
21
 3.5×
New York University NY
20
 4.0×
University of Rochester NY
19
 4.6×
University of Michigan MI
19
 1.2×
Carnegie Mellon University PA
16
 2.6×
CUNY City College NY
15
 1.2×
University of California-Los Angeles CA
15
 1.6×
University of Pennsylvania PA
14
 1.3×
Rice University TX
11
 10.3×
Brown University RI
11
 4.5×
Ohio State University OH
10
 0.6×
Swarthmore College PA
9
 30.1×
University of Colorado Boulder CO
9
 2.4×
Case Western Reserve University OH
9
 3.0×
University of Washington WA
8
 1.0×
Stony Brook University NY
8
 8.8×
University of Maryland-College Park MD
8
 1.2×
University of California-San Diego CA
8
 1.1×
Amherst College MA
7
 12.2×
Syracuse University NY
7
 1.2×
CUNY Brooklyn College NY
7
 0.8×
University of California-Santa Barbara CA
7
 3.9×
Northwestern University IL
7
 2.0×
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute NY
7
 1.9×
Purdue University IN
7
 0.9×
University of Utah UT
6
 0.7×

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
California Institute of Technology CA
8.1%
 107
Bryn Mawr College PA
5.0%
 5
Princeton University NJ
5.0%
 106
Stony Brook University NY
4.7%
 8
Massachusetts Institute of Technology MA
4.0%
 140
University of California-Berkeley CA
3.2%
 126
Cornell University NY
3.0%
 88
Johns Hopkins University MD
2.9%
 23
Harvard University MA
2.9%
 177
The University of Texas at Austin TX
2.3%
 21
University of Wisconsin-Madison WI
2.1%
 24
University of California-Santa Barbara CA
2.1%
 7
University of Chicago IL
2.0%
 73
Rice University TX
2.0%
 11
University of Colorado Boulder CO
1.9%
 9
Swarthmore College PA
1.9%
 9
University of Minnesota MN
1.9%
 21
University of Rochester NY
1.8%
 19
Case Western Reserve University OH
1.7%
 9
New York University NY
1.6%
 20
Illinois Institute of Technology IL
1.5%
 5
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute NY
1.5%
 7
Amherst College MA
1.5%
 7
CUNY City College NY
1.4%
 15
Stanford University CA
1.4%
 79
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign IL
1.4%
 23
CUNY Brooklyn College NY
1.3%
 7
Washington University in St Louis MO
1.3%
 5
University of Maryland-College Park MD
1.2%
 8
University of Connecticut CT
1.2%
 6
University of Missouri MO
1.2%
 5
Brandeis University MA
1.2%
 5
Purdue University IN
1.2%
 7
University of Utah UT
1.1%
 6
University of California-San Diego CA
1.1%
 8
Carnegie Mellon University PA
1.1%
 16
University of Pennsylvania PA
0.9%
 14
Ohio State University OH
0.8%
 10
Brown University RI
0.8%
 11
University of California-Los Angeles CA
0.7%
 15