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
Harvard University MA
159
 37.5×
California Institute of Technology CA
102
 443.8×
University of California-Berkeley CA
96
 17.3×
Massachusetts Institute of Technology MA
92
 69.3×
Princeton University NJ
79
 90.8×
University of Chicago IL
63
 22.7×
University of Michigan MI
51
 6.0×
Cornell University NY
50
 19.6×
Yale University CT
38
 19.8×
University of Arizona AZ
36
 10.1×
Columbia University NY
28
 6.5×
University of Wisconsin-Madison WI
27
 4.4×
The University of Texas at Austin TX
24
 5.6×
Johns Hopkins University MD
23
 6.5×
University of California-Los Angeles CA
23
 5.1×
Brown University RI
20
 17.6×
Stanford University CA
17
 8.0×
University of Washington WA
16
 4.3×
University of Minnesota MN
16
 1.6×
University of California-Santa Cruz CA
16
 15.3×
University of Virginia VA
16
 3.1×
Rice University TX
14
 22.9×
Oberlin College OH
13
 24.8×
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign IL
13
 2.7×
University of Colorado Boulder CO
12
 3.4×
University of Cincinnati OH
11
 1.4×
Dartmouth College NH
11
 7.0×
Swarthmore College PA
11
 28.8×
Ohio State University OH
11
 1.6×
University of Rochester NY
11
 6.2×
Amherst College MA
11
 18.2×
Boston University MA
10
 2.3×
Indiana University IN
10
 2.4×
Vassar College NY
10
 10.7×
University of California-San Diego CA
9
 3.8×
Northwestern University IL
9
 3.2×
Stony Brook University NY
8
 4.8×
University of Pennsylvania PA
8
 3.6×
University of Massachusetts-Amherst MA
8
 2.1×
United States Military Academy NY
7
 0.6×

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
10.4%
 102
University of California-Santa Cruz CA
3.7%
 16
Bryn Mawr College PA
2.4%
 7
University of Arizona AZ
2.4%
 36
Massachusetts Institute of Technology MA
2.2%
 92
Stony Brook University NY
1.8%
 8
University of Hawaii at Manoa HI
1.8%
 7
Princeton University NJ
1.7%
 79
Rice University TX
1.6%
 14
Carleton College MN
1.4%
 7
Pomona College CA
1.2%
 7
University of California-San Diego CA
1.2%
 9
Oberlin College OH
1.1%
 13
University of Rochester NY
1.1%
 11
University of Chicago IL
1.1%
 63
University of California-Berkeley CA
1.1%
 96
Cornell University NY
1.0%
 50
The University of Texas at Austin TX
1.0%
 24
Case Western Reserve University OH
1.0%
 6
University of Colorado Boulder CO
0.9%
 12
Harvard University MA
0.9%
 159
Swarthmore College PA
0.9%
 11
Johns Hopkins University MD
0.8%
 23
University of Washington WA
0.8%
 16
Indiana University IN
0.8%
 10
Brown University RI
0.7%
 20
Amherst College MA
0.6%
 11
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign IL
0.6%
 13
University of Cincinnati OH
0.6%
 11
University of Wisconsin-Madison WI
0.6%
 27
Wesleyan University CT
0.6%
 5
CUNY City College NY
0.6%
 7
Wellesley College MA
0.5%
 6
University of California-Santa Barbara CA
0.5%
 5
University of Massachusetts-Amherst MA
0.5%
 8
Mount Holyoke College MA
0.5%
 5
Yale University CT
0.5%
 38
University of Michigan MI
0.5%
 51
Smith College MA
0.5%
 6
Vassar College NY
0.5%
 10