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
 51.3×
Massachusetts Institute of Technology MA
140
 90.3×
University of California-Berkeley CA
126
 24.0×
California Institute of Technology CA
107
 352.5×
Princeton University NJ
106
 103.5×
Cornell University NY
88
 37.7×
Stanford University CA
79
 34.4×
University of Chicago IL
73
 33.6×
Columbia University NY
55
 13.6×
Yale University CT
36
 18.4×
University of Wisconsin-Madison WI
24
 3.4×
Johns Hopkins University MD
23
 8.0×
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign IL
23
 3.5×
University of Minnesota MN
21
 2.3×
The University of Texas at Austin TX
21
 3.3×
New York University NY
20
 3.0×
University of Rochester NY
19
 12.0×
University of Michigan MI
19
 2.5×
Carnegie Mellon University PA
16
 10.7×
CUNY City College NY
15
 5.7×
University of California-Los Angeles CA
15
 2.5×
University of Pennsylvania PA
14
 3.3×
Rice University TX
11
 16.0×
Brown University RI
11
 8.7×
Ohio State University OH
10
 1.0×
Swarthmore College PA
9
 45.2×
University of Colorado Boulder CO
9
 2.3×
Case Western Reserve University OH
9
 6.4×
University of Washington WA
8
 1.4×
Stony Brook University NY
8
 3.7×
University of Maryland-College Park MD
8
 1.4×
University of California-San Diego CA
8
 2.6×
Amherst College MA
7
 27.3×
Syracuse University NY
7
 2.0×
CUNY Brooklyn College NY
7
 2.3×
University of California-Santa Barbara CA
7
 3.1×
Northwestern University IL
7
 2.5×
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute NY
7
 6.0×
Purdue University IN
7
 1.2×
University of Utah UT
6
 1.3×

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
14.2%
 107
Massachusetts Institute of Technology MA
6.4%
 140
Stony Brook University NY
6.3%
 8
Cornell University NY
6.2%
 88
University of Rochester NY
6.0%
 19
Princeton University NJ
5.6%
 106
University of California-Berkeley CA
5.1%
 126
Case Western Reserve University OH
5.0%
 9
Rice University TX
5.0%
 11
Illinois Institute of Technology IL
4.9%
 5
University of California-Santa Barbara CA
4.3%
 7
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute NY
4.3%
 7
University of Chicago IL
4.2%
 73
University of Colorado Boulder CO
4.0%
 9
The University of Texas at Austin TX
4.0%
 21
CUNY City College NY
3.7%
 15
Carnegie Mellon University PA
3.7%
 16
Stanford University CA
3.7%
 79
Swarthmore College PA
3.6%
 9
Bryn Mawr College PA
3.4%
 5
University of Connecticut CT
3.4%
 6
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign IL
3.3%
 23
University of Minnesota MN
3.2%
 21
Harvard University MA
3.2%
 177
Johns Hopkins University MD
3.0%
 23
Amherst College MA
3.0%
 7
University of Maryland-College Park MD
2.8%
 8
University of California-San Diego CA
2.8%
 8
CUNY Brooklyn College NY
2.7%
 7
University of Utah UT
2.6%
 6
Washington University in St Louis MO
2.1%
 5
University of Missouri MO
2.1%
 5
Purdue University IN
2.1%
 7
University of Wisconsin-Madison WI
2.0%
 24
Brandeis University MA
2.0%
 5
Columbia University NY
1.8%
 55
New York University NY
1.7%
 20
Ohio State University OH
1.7%
 10
University of Pennsylvania PA
1.6%
 14
Brown University RI
1.4%
 11