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 Association for the Advancement of Science

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
282
 29.7×
Massachusetts Institute of Technology MA
242
 71.2×
University of California-Berkeley CA
228
 17.6×
Stanford University CA
198
 50.6×
Cornell University NY
146
 21.4×
Princeton University NJ
127
 67.3×
Yale University CT
114
 28.0×
University of Chicago IL
102
 11.9×
California Institute of Technology CA
99
 129.6×
University of Wisconsin-Madison WI
98
 5.5×
Columbia University NY
93
 4.2×
University of Michigan MI
80
 5.4×
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign IL
70
 3.9×
University of Pennsylvania PA
56
 3.6×
The University of Texas at Austin TX
54
 2.5×
University of California-Los Angeles CA
52
 4.1×
University of Minnesota MN
48
 1.4×
Brown University RI
45
 22.8×
Purdue University IN
44
 2.3×
University of Washington WA
42
 2.5×
Johns Hopkins University MD
41
 6.2×
University of California-San Diego CA
38
 3.7×
Ohio State University OH
37
 1.0×
New York University NY
33
 1.3×
Duke University NC
32
 7.1×
University of California-Davis CA
32
 5.5×
Michigan State University MI
31
 4.4×
Carnegie Mellon University PA
29
 7.8×
Northwestern University IL
28
 3.8×
Swarthmore College PA
25
 26.1×
Washington University in St Louis MO
24
 6.5×
The Rockefeller University NY
23
 332.8×
University of Iowa IA
23
 1.1×
Brandeis University MA
23
 6.7×
University of Colorado Boulder CO
23
 2.7×
Pennsylvania State University PA
22
 1.6×
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill NC
21
 1.2×
Rice University TX
20
 4.9×
University of California-San Francisco CA
20
 25.6×
Oberlin College OH
19
 7.9×

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
University of California-Davis CA
15.6%
 32
Michigan State University MI
15.6%
 31
Cornell University NY
14.9%
 146
California Institute of Technology CA
14.3%
 99
Massachusetts Institute of Technology MA
13.6%
 242
Stanford University CA
12.4%
 198
The Rockefeller University NY
12.4%
 23
University of California-Santa Barbara CA
11.5%
 16
University of California-San Francisco CA
11.5%
 20
Iowa State University IA
11.5%
 19
University of California-Berkeley CA
11.4%
 228
University of New Mexico NM
11.2%
 8
Princeton University NJ
11.2%
 127
Case Western Reserve University OH
10.8%
 19
Reed College OR
10.8%
 13
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign IL
10.7%
 70
Stony Brook University NY
10.3%
 18
Washington University in St Louis MO
10.2%
 24
Johns Hopkins University MD
10.1%
 41
University of California-San Diego CA
10.0%
 38
University of Rochester NY
9.8%
 19
University of Wisconsin-Madison WI
9.7%
 98
Haverford College PA
9.6%
 5
Purdue University IN
9.3%
 44
Oregon State University OR
9.3%
 12
University of Georgia GA
9.2%
 16
University of Colorado Boulder CO
9.2%
 23
Wellesley College MA
9.1%
 14
Brown University RI
9.1%
 45
Vanderbilt University TN
8.8%
 7
University of California-Irvine CA
8.7%
 8
University of Chicago IL
8.5%
 102
Vassar College NY
8.3%
 10
Carnegie Mellon University PA
8.3%
 29
Harvard University MA
8.1%
 282
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute NY
8.1%
 15
Swarthmore College PA
8.0%
 25
Tufts University MA
8.0%
 10
Weill Medical College of Cornell University NY
8.0%
 7
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University VA
7.9%
 12