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
 42.6×
California Institute of Technology CA
102
 413.7×
University of California-Berkeley CA
96
 18.5×
Massachusetts Institute of Technology MA
92
 67.3×
Princeton University NJ
79
 86.1×
University of Chicago IL
63
 29.3×
University of Michigan MI
51
 6.8×
Cornell University NY
50
 22.5×
Yale University CT
38
 20.0×
University of Arizona AZ
36
 8.8×
Columbia University NY
28
 7.4×
University of Wisconsin-Madison WI
27
 4.2×
The University of Texas at Austin TX
24
 4.4×
Johns Hopkins University MD
23
 7.9×
University of California-Los Angeles CA
23
 4.9×
Brown University RI
20
 17.2×
Stanford University CA
17
 8.1×
University of Washington WA
16
 3.6×
University of Minnesota MN
16
 1.7×
University of California-Santa Cruz CA
16
 13.5×
University of Virginia VA
16
 3.9×
Rice University TX
14
 23.5×
Oberlin College OH
13
 25.8×
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign IL
13
 2.6×
University of Colorado Boulder CO
12
 3.4×
University of Cincinnati OH
11
 1.6×
Dartmouth College NH
11
 8.6×
Swarthmore College PA
11
 40.1×
Ohio State University OH
11
 1.5×
University of Rochester NY
11
 6.9×
Amherst College MA
11
 25.8×
Boston University MA
10
 2.2×
Indiana University IN
10
 2.0×
Vassar College NY
10
 16.5×
University of California-San Diego CA
9
 3.7×
Northwestern University IL
9
 3.5×
Stony Brook University NY
8
 4.0×
University of Pennsylvania PA
8
 2.8×
University of Massachusetts-Amherst MA
8
 2.2×
United States Military Academy NY
7
 2.4×

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
10.2%
 102
University of California-Santa Cruz CA
3.8%
 16
University of Arizona AZ
2.7%
 36
Massachusetts Institute of Technology MA
2.3%
 92
University of Hawaii at Manoa HI
2.0%
 7
Stony Brook University NY
1.9%
 8
Carleton College MN
1.9%
 7
Rice University TX
1.9%
 14
Bryn Mawr College PA
1.8%
 7
Princeton University NJ
1.7%
 79
Pomona College CA
1.5%
 7
University of Rochester NY
1.3%
 11
Swarthmore College PA
1.3%
 11
University of California-Berkeley CA
1.3%
 96
University of California-San Diego CA
1.3%
 9
University of Chicago IL
1.3%
 63
University of Colorado Boulder CO
1.2%
 12
Oberlin College OH
1.2%
 13
Cornell University NY
1.1%
 50
Case Western Reserve University OH
1.1%
 6
The University of Texas at Austin TX
1.0%
 24
Harvard University MA
1.0%
 159
Johns Hopkins University MD
0.9%
 23
Mount Holyoke College MA
0.9%
 5
Indiana University IN
0.9%
 10
University of Cincinnati OH
0.9%
 11
Amherst College MA
0.9%
 11
University of Washington WA
0.8%
 16
Brown University RI
0.8%
 20
Vassar College NY
0.8%
 10
Wellesley College MA
0.7%
 6
University of Massachusetts-Amherst MA
0.7%
 8
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign IL
0.7%
 13
University of California-Santa Barbara CA
0.6%
 5
University of Michigan MI
0.6%
 51
University of Wisconsin-Madison WI
0.6%
 27
Smith College MA
0.6%
 6
CUNY City College NY
0.6%
 7
Lehigh University PA
0.6%
 5
University of Virginia VA
0.6%
 16