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).

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

Most alumni

SchoolAlumnivs. typical
University of California-Los Angeles CA
306
 12.7×
University of Southern California CA
240
 12.5×
New York University NY
232
 10.5×
The Juilliard School NY
184
 274.4×
Northwestern University IL
148
 12.4×
Columbia University NY
148
 9.7×
Harvard University MA
125
 8.9×
Yale University CT
124
 16.6×
Carnegie Mellon University PA
122
 22.9×
Boston University MA
85
 4.8×
The University of Texas at Austin TX
77
 2.3×
University of Michigan MI
71
 2.7×
University of California-Berkeley CA
70
 3.1×
Brown University RI
69
 14.8×
Stanford University CA
62
 5.9×
New York Film Academy CA
57
 66.4×
Syracuse University NY
54
 4.1×
California Institute of the Arts CA
50
 84.0×
Sarah Lawrence College NY
50
 59.6×
San Francisco State University CA
50
 2.9×
University of North Carolina School of the Arts NC
50
 134.2×
DePaul University IL
50
 4.9×
University of Washington WA
49
 1.8×
Cornell University NY
46
 4.1×
Emerson College MA
43
 22.2×
Southern Methodist University TX
41
 6.5×
Howard University DC
41
 5.7×
Princeton University NJ
41
 9.6×
Fordham University NY
41
 4.8×
The New School NY
40
 8.4×
Temple University PA
39
 1.7×
SUNY at Purchase College NY
39
 17.6×
University of Minnesota MN
38
 0.8×
California State University-Northridge CA
38
 2.0×
CUNY Hunter College NY
36
 2.5×
University of Iowa IA
36
 1.8×
Wesleyan University CT
34
 19.0×
University of Chicago IL
34
 3.2×
University of Miami FL
33
 3.0×
University of Wisconsin-Madison WI
33
 1.0×

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 North Carolina School of the Arts NC
35.4%
 50
Marymount Manhattan College NY
27.5%
 25
New York Film Academy CA
22.5%
 57
American Musical and Dramatic Academy NY
21.3%
 16
SUNY at Purchase College NY
20.3%
 39
Chapman University CA
16.1%
 17
Santa Monica College CA
15.9%
 25
Skidmore College NY
15.2%
 17
Emerson College MA
15.0%
 43
Carnegie Mellon University PA
14.8%
 122
Gallaudet University DC
14.6%
 10
The Juilliard School NY
14.2%
 184
Sarah Lawrence College NY
14.1%
 50
Otterbein University OH
13.3%
 10
Point Park University PA
12.9%
 9
University of Evansville IN
12.7%
 12
DePaul University IL
12.4%
 50
Stephens College MO
12.3%
 11
Loyola Marymount University CA
12.0%
 33
Ithaca College NY
11.0%
 19
California Lutheran University CA
10.7%
 5
California Institute of the Arts CA
10.4%
 50
California State University-Northridge CA
10.0%
 38
Columbia College Chicago IL
10.0%
 15
Bridgewater State University MA
9.8%
 7
Southern Oregon University OR
9.8%
 6
Illinois Wesleyan University IL
9.7%
 11
University of Dallas TX
9.2%
 5
Illinois State University IL
8.8%
 25
San Francisco State University CA
8.4%
 50
The New School NY
8.4%
 40
University of Southern California CA
8.3%
 240
California State University-Los Angeles CA
8.2%
 15
Texas State University TX
8.1%
 14
Bard College NY
8.1%
 21
Denison University OH
7.9%
 11
New York University NY
7.6%
 232
University of California-Los Angeles CA
7.6%
 306
College of Charleston SC
7.5%
 9
Occidental College CA
7.2%
 15