College Outcomes Explorer

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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
21
 38.6×
Harvard University MA
11
 20.5×
University of California-Berkeley CA
10
 13.5×
New York University NY
7
 10.7×
Yale University CT
7
 38.0×
Cornell University NY
6
 21.4×
Princeton University NJ
4
 33.6×
George Washington University DC
3
 7.0×
Georgetown University DC
3
 7.9×
Northwestern University IL
3
 9.3×
University of Wisconsin-Madison WI
3
 2.4×
Johns Hopkins University MD
3
 8.1×
The New School NY
3
 16.7×
Brown University RI
3
 21.9×
University of Michigan MI
3
 3.8×
Stanford University CA
3
 10.1×

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
Columbia University NY
0.2%
 21
University of California-Berkeley CA
0.1%
 10