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 Optical 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
Massachusetts Institute of Technology MA
25
 116.5×
Stanford University CA
19
 58.7×
University of California-Berkeley CA
16
 22.5×
Harvard University MA
13
 30.5×
University of Rochester NY
9
 46.3×
Cornell University NY
7
 24.7×
University of Michigan MI
6
 7.3×
California Institute of Technology CA
6
 147.8×
Johns Hopkins University MD
5
 17.3×
Columbia University NY
5
 11.8×
Princeton University NJ
4
 27.9×
University of Arizona AZ
3
 4.1×
Brown University RI
3
 18.3×
Bryn Mawr College PA
3
 76.9×
University of Pennsylvania PA
3
 6.0×
Swarthmore College PA
3
 100.1×

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 Rochester NY
2.9%
 9
Massachusetts Institute of Technology MA
1.1%
 25
Stanford University CA
0.8%
 19
California Institute of Technology CA
0.7%
 6
University of California-Berkeley CA
0.6%
 16