College Outcomes Explorer

Full University Alumni

← All occupations

astronomer

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
Harvard University MA
179
 27.6×
California Institute of Technology CA
102
 421.5×
University of California-Berkeley CA
96
 10.6×
Massachusetts Institute of Technology MA
92
 45.7×
Princeton University NJ
79
 80.5×
University of Chicago IL
64
 11.0×
University of Michigan MI
55
 5.2×
Cornell University NY
50
 9.6×
Yale University CT
45
 25.3×
University of Arizona AZ
36
 11.2×
Columbia University NY
29
 4.7×
University of Wisconsin-Madison WI
27
 5.3×
The University of Texas at Austin TX
25
 8.5×
Johns Hopkins University MD
23
 4.7×
University of California-Los Angeles CA
23
 3.6×
Brown University RI
21
 13.1×
Stanford University CA
17
 4.8×
University of Virginia VA
16
 1.5×
University of Minnesota MN
16
 1.0×
University of California-Santa Cruz CA
16
 18.2×
University of Washington WA
16
 5.3×
Rice University TX
14
 12.9×
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign IL
13
 2.2×
Oberlin College OH
13
 20.3×
University of Rochester NY
12
 4.0×
University of Colorado Boulder CO
12
 1.9×
Ohio State University OH
11
 1.4×
Swarthmore College PA
11
 7.2×
Dartmouth College NH
11
 6.0×
Amherst College MA
11
 6.1×
University of Cincinnati OH
11
 1.4×
Indiana University IN
10
 3.9×
Vassar College NY
10
 3.4×
Boston University MA
10
 1.7×
Northwestern University IL
10
 1.8×
University of Pennsylvania PA
9
 7.3×
University of California-San Diego CA
9
 4.7×
Stony Brook University NY
8
 7.1×
University of Massachusetts-Amherst MA
8
 1.3×
Syracuse University NY
7
 0.8×

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
8.7%
 102
Bryn Mawr College PA
3.4%
 7
University of California-Santa Cruz CA
3.2%
 16
Stony Brook University NY
1.7%
 8
University of Arizona AZ
1.6%
 36
University of Hawaii at Manoa HI
1.4%
 7
Princeton University NJ
1.4%
 79
Massachusetts Institute of Technology MA
1.3%
 92
University of California-San Diego CA
1.1%
 9
Wesleyan University CT
1.1%
 5
The University of Texas at Austin TX
0.9%
 25
Oberlin College OH
0.7%
 13
University of Chicago IL
0.7%
 64
University of Washington WA
0.7%
 16
Indiana University IN
0.7%
 10
Rice University TX
0.6%
 14
Johns Hopkins University MD
0.6%
 23
University of California-Berkeley CA
0.5%
 96
Cornell University NY
0.5%
 50
Carleton College MN
0.5%
 7
University of Wisconsin-Madison WI
0.5%
 27
Harvard University MA
0.5%
 179
Yale University CT
0.5%
 45
University of Rochester NY
0.5%
 12
Case Western Reserve University OH
0.5%
 7
Brown University RI
0.4%
 21
Pomona College CA
0.4%
 7
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign IL
0.4%
 13
University of Colorado Boulder CO
0.3%
 12
University of Michigan MI
0.3%
 55
University of Cincinnati OH
0.3%
 11
Washington University in St Louis MO
0.3%
 5
CUNY City College NY
0.3%
 7
University of California-Santa Barbara CA
0.3%
 5
Amherst College MA
0.2%
 11
Dartmouth College NH
0.2%
 11
Swarthmore College PA
0.2%
 11
Wellesley College MA
0.2%
 6
Smith College MA
0.2%
 6
University of Massachusetts-Amherst MA
0.2%
 8