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
92
 34.0×
University of Chicago IL
85
 46.3×
Northwestern University IL
65
 25.6×
Princeton University NJ
47
 71.0×
University of California-Berkeley CA
43
 12.7×
Massachusetts Institute of Technology MA
42
 57.7×
Yale University CT
41
 31.1×
University of Michigan MI
36
 6.4×
Stanford University CA
35
 24.6×
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign IL
30
 6.9×
Columbia University NY
29
 9.7×
University of Wisconsin-Madison WI
28
 5.1×
Cornell University NY
21
 14.0×
University of Pennsylvania PA
21
 8.3×
University of Minnesota MN
20
 2.9×
Johns Hopkins University MD
16
 6.3×
University of Iowa IA
13
 3.0×
Michigan State University MI
11
 3.3×
Brown University RI
11
 18.7×
University of California-Los Angeles CA
11
 2.5×
Wesleyan University CT
9
 11.8×
University of Pittsburgh PA
9
 2.5×
Purdue University IN
9
 2.0×
New York University NY
9
 3.0×
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill NC
8
 2.7×
Duke University NC
8
 9.1×
Ohio State University OH
8
 1.4×
The University of Texas at Austin TX
8
 1.4×
Washington University in St Louis MO
7
 4.3×
University of Notre Dame IN
7
 8.1×
Carnegie Mellon University PA
7
 5.9×
Syracuse University NY
6
 1.0×
California Institute of Technology CA
6
 27.4×
Pennsylvania State University PA
6
 1.9×
University of Massachusetts-Amherst MA
5
 2.0×
CUNY City College NY
5
 2.0×
University of Kansas KS
5
 1.1×
Iowa State University IA
5
 1.9×
Indiana University IN
5
 1.1×
Roosevelt University IL
5
 6.7×

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
5.3%
 65
Roosevelt University IL
3.9%
 5
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign IL
3.1%
 30
Michigan State University MI
3.1%
 11
University of Chicago IL
2.9%
 85
University of Notre Dame IN
2.4%
 7
School of the Art Institute of Chicago IL
2.1%
 5
Massachusetts Institute of Technology MA
2.1%
 42
University of Minnesota MN
2.0%
 20
Princeton University NJ
2.0%
 47
Iowa State University IA
1.9%
 5
University of Pennsylvania PA
1.7%
 21
Amherst College MA
1.7%
 5
Purdue University IN
1.7%
 9
University of Pittsburgh PA
1.7%
 9
University of Iowa IA
1.6%
 13
University of Wisconsin-Madison WI
1.6%
 28
Washington University in St Louis MO
1.5%
 7
Brown University RI
1.5%
 11
University of Michigan MI
1.4%
 36
Indiana University IN
1.4%
 5
Wesleyan University CT
1.3%
 9
University of California-Berkeley CA
1.3%
 43
Stanford University CA
1.3%
 35
Harvard University MA
1.3%
 92
Yale University CT
1.3%
 41
Cornell University NY
1.3%
 21
Johns Hopkins University MD
1.3%
 16
Carnegie Mellon University PA
1.2%
 7
CUNY City College NY
1.1%
 5
University of Massachusetts-Amherst MA
1.1%
 5
University of Kansas KS
0.9%
 5
Columbia University NY
0.8%
 29
University of Utah UT
0.8%
 5
University of California-Los Angeles CA
0.7%
 11
California Institute of Technology CA
0.7%
 6