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).

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

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
17
 17.8×
Harvard University MA
11
 18.6×
Johns Hopkins University MD
8
 8.1×
University of Wisconsin-Madison WI
8
 5.7×
University of California-Berkeley CA
7
 10.0×
Massachusetts Institute of Technology MA
7
 38.5×
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign IL
6
 4.5×
Yale University CT
6
 14.6×
University of Washington WA
6
 6.6×
California Institute of Technology CA
5
 122.4×
Cornell University NY
5
 8.2×
The Rockefeller University NY
4
 1002.8×
New York University NY
4
 2.6×
University of California-San Diego CA
3
 8.3×
Case Western Reserve University OH
3
 12.6×
University of Rochester NY
3
 9.8×
University of Chicago IL
3
 5.9×
Washington University in St Louis MO
3
 6.5×
The University of Texas at Austin TX
3
 3.0×
University of California-Los Angeles CA
3
 6.3×
CUNY City College NY
3
 6.8×

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
0.6%
 5
Columbia University NY
0.3%
 17