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
93
 47.8×
Harvard University MA
81
 41.6×
Yale University CT
33
 30.7×
University of California-Berkeley CA
30
 9.3×
New York University NY
22
 6.1×
University of Michigan MI
22
 5.8×
University of Iowa IA
20
 7.3×
University of California-Los Angeles CA
20
 5.6×
University of Chicago IL
19
 17.7×
Cornell University NY
17
 13.2×
Stanford University CA
17
 11.5×
Princeton University NJ
15
 22.9×
Johns Hopkins University MD
14
 10.6×
University of Pennsylvania PA
14
 6.1×
Brown University RI
13
 17.4×
University of Wisconsin-Madison WI
13
 3.1×
University of Pittsburgh PA
10
 3.4×
Syracuse University NY
10
 4.9×
University of Southern California CA
9
 3.0×
Smith College MA
8
 26.8×
Wesleyan University CT
8
 26.5×
University of Washington WA
8
 2.1×
University of Minnesota MN
7
 1.2×
CUNY City College NY
7
 5.4×
Bryn Mawr College PA
7
 39.3×
Massachusetts Institute of Technology MA
7
 7.2×
Bard College NY
7
 62.4×
Bennington College VT
6
 95.6×
Dartmouth College NH
6
 12.4×
Boston University MA
6
 2.1×
Vassar College NY
6
 25.2×
Barnard College NY
6
 24.0×
The University of Texas at Austin TX
6
 1.3×
San Francisco State University CA
6
 2.3×
University of Massachusetts-Amherst MA
6
 2.3×
Sarah Lawrence College NY
6
 49.6×
Binghamton University NY
6
 4.8×
Howard University DC
5
 4.5×
University of Utah UT
5
 2.0×
University of Arizona AZ
5
 1.5×

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
Bard College NY
2.3%
 7
Bennington College VT
2.2%
 6
Binghamton University NY
1.9%
 6
Sarah Lawrence College NY
1.5%
 6
Bryn Mawr College PA
1.1%
 7
Columbia University NY
1.1%
 93
Smith College MA
1.0%
 8
University of Iowa IA
1.0%
 20
San Francisco State University CA
0.8%
 6
Wesleyan University CT
0.8%
 8
Barnard College NY
0.8%
 6
Vassar College NY
0.7%
 6
University of Pittsburgh PA
0.7%
 10
University of New Mexico NM
0.7%
 5
CUNY City College NY
0.7%
 7
American University DC
0.6%
 5
Johns Hopkins University MD
0.6%
 14
University of Massachusetts-Amherst MA
0.5%
 6
New York University NY
0.5%
 22
Harvard University MA
0.5%
 81
Howard University DC
0.5%
 5
Brown University RI
0.5%
 13
Yale University CT
0.4%
 33
Syracuse University NY
0.4%
 10
University of California-Los Angeles CA
0.4%
 20
University of Pennsylvania PA
0.4%
 14
University of California-Berkeley CA
0.4%
 30
University of Chicago IL
0.4%
 19
University of Utah UT
0.4%
 5
University of Arizona AZ
0.3%
 5
Cornell University NY
0.3%
 17
University of Michigan MI
0.3%
 22
University of Wisconsin-Madison WI
0.3%
 13
Princeton University NJ
0.3%
 15
Stanford University CA
0.3%
 17