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
Columbia University NY
90
 37.0×
Harvard University MA
78
 30.7×
Yale University CT
29
 22.1×
University of California-Berkeley CA
28
 7.2×
New York University NY
22
 9.3×
University of Michigan MI
20
 6.3×
University of California-Los Angeles CA
19
 5.3×
University of Chicago IL
19
 12.1×
University of Iowa IA
19
 9.6×
Stanford University CA
17
 12.5×
Cornell University NY
16
 9.1×
Princeton University NJ
15
 26.4×
University of Pennsylvania PA
14
 6.7×
University of Wisconsin-Madison WI
13
 2.6×
Brown University RI
13
 24.4×
Johns Hopkins University MD
13
 7.5×
Syracuse University NY
10
 5.7×
University of Pittsburgh PA
10
 5.7×
University of Southern California CA
9
 2.7×
Smith College MA
8
 17.5×
CUNY City College NY
7
 2.8×
Massachusetts Institute of Technology MA
7
 5.7×
Bard College NY
7
 54.1×
Wesleyan University CT
7
 32.3×
University of Minnesota MN
7
 1.9×
Boston University MA
6
 2.6×
University of Washington WA
6
 2.5×
University of Massachusetts-Amherst MA
6
 2.4×
Vassar College NY
6
 21.8×
Sarah Lawrence College NY
6
 62.6×
Binghamton University NY
6
 4.8×
The University of Texas at Austin TX
6
 1.7×
Bennington College VT
6
 117.5×
Bryn Mawr College PA
6
 23.9×
Barnard College NY
6
 20.2×
San Francisco State University CA
6
 2.9×
University of New Mexico NM
5
 2.8×
Dartmouth College NH
5
 5.8×
University of Utah UT
5
 1.7×
Howard University DC
5
 2.9×

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
Bennington College VT
2.1%
 6
Bard College NY
1.7%
 7
Sarah Lawrence College NY
1.5%
 6
Binghamton University NY
1.4%
 6
Columbia University NY
1.2%
 90
University of Iowa IA
1.1%
 19
American University DC
1.0%
 5
University of Pittsburgh PA
1.0%
 10
Wesleyan University CT
0.9%
 7
Bryn Mawr College PA
0.9%
 6
San Francisco State University CA
0.8%
 6
Smith College MA
0.8%
 8
New York University NY
0.7%
 22
Johns Hopkins University MD
0.7%
 13
Brown University RI
0.7%
 13
Barnard College NY
0.6%
 6
Vassar College NY
0.6%
 6
University of New Mexico NM
0.6%
 5
University of Pennsylvania PA
0.5%
 14
CUNY City College NY
0.5%
 7
Harvard University MA
0.5%
 78
University of Massachusetts-Amherst MA
0.4%
 6
University of Chicago IL
0.4%
 19
Yale University CT
0.4%
 29
Syracuse University NY
0.4%
 10
University of Michigan MI
0.4%
 20
Princeton University NJ
0.3%
 15
Cornell University NY
0.3%
 16
Howard University DC
0.3%
 5
University of California-Berkeley CA
0.3%
 28
University of California-Los Angeles CA
0.3%
 19
University of Utah UT
0.3%
 5
Stanford University CA
0.2%
 17
University of Wisconsin-Madison WI
0.2%
 13