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).

Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards

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
Columbia University NY
20
 39.9×
Harvard University MA
16
 31.9×
Howard University DC
11
 38.3×
Yale University CT
10
 36.1×
University of Chicago IL
9
 32.5×
Princeton University NJ
8
 47.3×
Stanford University CA
8
 21.1×
University of California-Berkeley CA
7
 8.4×
University of Wisconsin-Madison WI
5
 4.7×
University of Iowa IA
5
 7.2×
University of Pennsylvania PA
5
 8.5×
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill NC
4
 6.7×
Boston University MA
4
 5.4×
University of Michigan MI
4
 4.1×
Johns Hopkins University MD
4
 11.8×
Cornell University NY
4
 12.1×
CUNY City College NY
4
 12.0×
Fisk University TN
4
 164.0×
University of Massachusetts-Amherst MA
3
 4.6×
CUNY Hunter College NY
3
 6.3×
Oberlin College OH
3
 41.4×
CUNY Brooklyn College NY
3
 7.1×
Barnard College NY
3
 46.4×
Dartmouth College NH
3
 24.0×
University of Minnesota MN
3
 2.0×
University of Virginia VA
3
 6.3×

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
Howard University DC
5.5%
 11
Columbia University NY
0.7%
 20