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
173
 50.9×
California Institute of Technology CA
116
 359.0×
University of California-Berkeley CA
109
 19.2×
Massachusetts Institute of Technology MA
104
 60.9×
Princeton University NJ
84
 73.4×
University of Chicago IL
67
 35.7×
University of Michigan MI
57
 8.6×
Cornell University NY
52
 23.0×
Yale University CT
41
 21.9×
University of Arizona AZ
37
 6.3×
University of Wisconsin-Madison WI
31
 4.2×
Columbia University NY
31
 9.1×
The University of Texas at Austin TX
26
 3.1×
University of California-Los Angeles CA
24
 3.9×
Johns Hopkins University MD
24
 10.4×
University of Washington WA
22
 3.3×
Brown University RI
22
 16.8×
Stanford University CA
21
 8.2×
University of California-Santa Cruz CA
20
 12.5×
University of Minnesota MN
17
 1.6×
University of Virginia VA
16
 4.9×
University of Colorado Boulder CO
15
 3.4×
Rice University TX
14
 19.0×
Oberlin College OH
13
 26.5×
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign IL
13
 2.0×
Boston University MA
12
 2.4×
University of Rochester NY
12
 7.8×
Swarthmore College PA
11
 46.1×
University of Maryland-College Park MD
11
 1.7×
Amherst College MA
11
 38.9×
Ohio State University OH
11
 1.2×
University of Cincinnati OH
11
 1.9×
Dartmouth College NH
11
 13.0×
Vassar College NY
10
 24.0×
University of California-San Diego CA
10
 3.5×
Indiana University IN
10
 1.7×
Pennsylvania State University PA
9
 1.3×
Northwestern University IL
9
 3.1×
University of Pennsylvania PA
9
 2.2×
University of Massachusetts-Amherst MA
9
 2.0×

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
California Institute of Technology CA
9.0%
 116
University of California-Santa Cruz CA
3.9%
 20
University of Arizona AZ
2.6%
 37
Carleton College MN
2.2%
 7
Massachusetts Institute of Technology MA
2.1%
 104
New Mexico State University NM
1.9%
 6
University of Hawaii at Manoa HI
1.8%
 7
Stony Brook University NY
1.8%
 9
Rice University TX
1.8%
 14
Pomona College CA
1.7%
 8
Swarthmore College PA
1.6%
 11
Mount Holyoke College MA
1.6%
 6
University of Rochester NY
1.6%
 12
University of Colorado Boulder CO
1.5%
 15
University of California-Berkeley CA
1.5%
 109
Princeton University NJ
1.5%
 84
University of Chicago IL
1.4%
 67
University of Cincinnati OH
1.3%
 11
Case Western Reserve University OH
1.3%
 8
Lehigh University PA
1.2%
 5
University of California-San Diego CA
1.2%
 10
Oberlin College OH
1.2%
 13
Vassar College NY
1.2%
 10
Bryn Mawr College PA
1.1%
 7
Amherst College MA
1.1%
 11
Johns Hopkins University MD
1.1%
 24
Harvard University MA
1.1%
 173
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute NY
1.1%
 5
Cornell University NY
1.0%
 52
Wellesley College MA
1.0%
 7
Indiana University IN
0.9%
 10
The University of Texas at Austin TX
0.9%
 26
Smith College MA
0.9%
 7
University of Washington WA
0.9%
 22
University of Michigan MI
0.8%
 57
Brown University RI
0.8%
 22
University of Maryland-College Park MD
0.8%
 11
University of Virginia VA
0.8%
 16
University of Massachusetts-Amherst MA
0.8%
 9
University of Wisconsin-Madison WI
0.7%
 31