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
 21.8×
Harvard University MA
78
 19.0×
Yale University CT
29
 10.6×
University of California-Berkeley CA
28
 3.5×
New York University NY
22
 13.9×
University of Michigan MI
20
 5.1×
University of California-Los Angeles CA
19
 3.1×
University of Chicago IL
19
 4.8×
University of Iowa IA
19
 11.6×
Stanford University CA
17
 9.1×
Cornell University NY
16
 5.1×
Princeton University NJ
15
 36.4×
University of Pennsylvania PA
14
 5.6×
University of Wisconsin-Madison WI
13
 1.7×
Brown University RI
13
 22.5×
Johns Hopkins University MD
13
 5.8×
Syracuse University NY
10
 4.5×
University of Pittsburgh PA
10
 8.8×
University of Southern California CA
9
 2.0×
Smith College MA
8
 4.7×
CUNY City College NY
7
 0.9×
Massachusetts Institute of Technology MA
7
 2.0×
Bard College NY
7
 40.5×
Wesleyan University CT
7
 22.5×
University of Minnesota MN
7
 1.9×
Boston University MA
6
 2.1×
University of Washington WA
6
 2.7×
University of Massachusetts-Amherst MA
6
 1.4×
Vassar College NY
6
 14.3×
Sarah Lawrence College NY
6
 50.8×
Binghamton University NY
6
 2.3×
The University of Texas at Austin TX
6
 1.5×
Bennington College VT
6
 68.3×
Bryn Mawr College PA
6
 11.4×
Barnard College NY
6
 7.7×
San Francisco State University CA
6
 2.0×
University of New Mexico NM
5
 3.0×
Dartmouth College NH
5
 3.7×
University of Utah UT
5
 1.0×
Howard University DC
5
 1.0×

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
American University DC
1.4%
 5
New York University NY
1.0%
 22
University of Pittsburgh PA
1.0%
 10
Bard College NY
0.9%
 7
University of Iowa IA
0.9%
 19
Sarah Lawrence College NY
0.9%
 6
Columbia University NY
0.8%
 90
Bennington College VT
0.8%
 6
Johns Hopkins University MD
0.6%
 13
Brown University RI
0.5%
 13
Wesleyan University CT
0.5%
 7
Princeton University NJ
0.5%
 15
San Francisco State University CA
0.4%
 6
University of Pennsylvania PA
0.4%
 14
Binghamton University NY
0.4%
 6
Harvard University MA
0.4%
 78
Bryn Mawr College PA
0.3%
 6
University of New Mexico NM
0.3%
 5
Vassar College NY
0.3%
 6
University of Chicago IL
0.2%
 19
Barnard College NY
0.2%
 6
University of Michigan MI
0.2%
 20
Cornell University NY
0.2%
 16
Smith College MA
0.2%
 8
Yale University CT
0.2%
 29
CUNY City College NY
0.2%
 7
University of Massachusetts-Amherst MA
0.2%
 6
Syracuse University NY
0.2%
 10
Stanford University CA
0.1%
 17
University of California-Berkeley CA
0.1%
 28
University of California-Los Angeles CA
0.1%
 19
University of Wisconsin-Madison WI
0.1%
 13
University of Utah UT
0.1%
 5
Howard University DC
0.1%
 5