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).

Northwestern University

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 employer as the typical school's. People who attended recently weigh more than those from earlier eras.

Most alumni

SchoolAlumnivs. typical
Harvard University MA
104
 39.6×
University of Chicago IL
94
 64.7×
Northwestern University IL
79
 35.1×
Princeton University NJ
51
 57.6×
University of California-Berkeley CA
48
 11.0×
Massachusetts Institute of Technology MA
47
 35.6×
Yale University CT
45
 31.0×
Stanford University CA
43
 21.6×
University of Michigan MI
41
 8.0×
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign IL
32
 6.3×
University of Wisconsin-Madison WI
31
 5.5×
Columbia University NY
30
 11.4×
University of Minnesota MN
26
 3.2×
Cornell University NY
25
 14.3×
University of Pennsylvania PA
21
 6.7×
Johns Hopkins University MD
17
 9.5×
University of California-Los Angeles CA
15
 3.1×
University of Iowa IA
13
 3.5×
Brown University RI
12
 11.9×
The University of Texas at Austin TX
12
 1.9×
New York University NY
11
 2.3×
California Institute of Technology CA
11
 44.0×
Michigan State University MI
11
 1.7×
Purdue University IN
10
 2.1×
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill NC
9
 2.9×
Pennsylvania State University PA
9
 1.7×
University of Pittsburgh PA
9
 2.3×
Wesleyan University CT
9
 22.1×
University of Washington WA
8
 1.6×
University of Notre Dame IN
8
 6.1×
Carnegie Mellon University PA
8
 8.2×
Duke University NC
8
 5.4×
Washington University in St Louis MO
8
 5.1×
Ohio State University OH
8
 1.1×
Syracuse University NY
7
 2.5×
University of Massachusetts-Amherst MA
6
 1.7×
University of California-San Diego CA
6
 2.7×
Iowa State University IA
6
 1.7×
Indiana University IN
6
 1.3×
Boston University MA
5
 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
Northwestern University IL
7.6%
 79
Roosevelt University IL
6.6%
 5
University of Chicago IL
3.1%
 94
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign IL
2.7%
 32
School of the Art Institute of Chicago IL
2.5%
 5
Wesleyan University CT
2.5%
 9
University of Minnesota MN
2.3%
 26
University of Notre Dame IN
2.2%
 8
Michigan State University MI
1.9%
 11
University of Iowa IA
1.9%
 13
Washington University in St Louis MO
1.8%
 8
Indiana University IN
1.8%
 6
Princeton University NJ
1.7%
 51
Purdue University IN
1.7%
 10
University of Pittsburgh PA
1.7%
 9
Iowa State University IA
1.7%
 6
Tufts University MA
1.6%
 5
University of Wisconsin-Madison WI
1.6%
 31
University of Michigan MI
1.6%
 41
Carnegie Mellon University PA
1.5%
 8
Massachusetts Institute of Technology MA
1.5%
 47
University of Pennsylvania PA
1.4%
 21
University of Missouri MO
1.4%
 5
Stanford University CA
1.3%
 43
Johns Hopkins University MD
1.3%
 17
Amherst College MA
1.3%
 5
Yale University CT
1.3%
 45
University of California-San Diego CA
1.3%
 6
Harvard University MA
1.3%
 104
The University of Texas at Austin TX
1.2%
 12
University of California-Berkeley CA
1.2%
 48
University of Utah UT
1.2%
 5
CUNY City College NY
1.1%
 5
California Institute of Technology CA
1.1%
 11
Oberlin College OH
1.1%
 5
University of Kansas KS
1.1%
 5
Brown University RI
1.0%
 12
University of Massachusetts-Amherst MA
1.0%
 6
University of California-Los Angeles CA
1.0%
 15
Cornell University NY
1.0%
 25