College Outcomes Explorer

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political scientist

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
458
 55.7×
Columbia University NY
244
 30.6×
Yale University CT
196
 53.7×
University of Chicago IL
174
 34.7×
Princeton University NJ
150
 65.2×
University of California-Berkeley CA
141
 13.0×
Stanford University CA
104
 22.6×
University of Michigan MI
91
 6.7×
Cornell University NY
81
 13.9×
University of Wisconsin-Madison WI
71
 4.9×
Johns Hopkins University MD
69
 12.3×
Georgetown University DC
68
 18.6×
Massachusetts Institute of Technology MA
54
 18.7×
University of California-Los Angeles CA
46
 4.0×
New York University NY
41
 3.8×
Northwestern University IL
38
 6.0×
University of Minnesota MN
37
 1.7×
Tufts University MA
33
 12.1×
University of Pennsylvania PA
32
 3.7×
Duke University NC
31
 9.3×
University of Virginia VA
29
 4.5×
University of Rochester NY
27
 9.4×
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill NC
27
 3.2×
Swarthmore College PA
25
 52.0×
The University of Texas at Austin TX
24
 1.5×
Brown University RI
24
 11.0×
Oberlin College OH
23
 20.0×
Ohio State University OH
22
 1.6×
University of Washington WA
21
 1.5×
George Washington University DC
20
 3.0×
American University DC
20
 6.4×
Washington University in St Louis MO
19
 4.4×
University of Massachusetts-Amherst MA
19
 2.0×
CUNY City College NY
19
 2.6×
Syracuse University NY
18
 2.3×
Amherst College MA
17
 24.1×
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign IL
17
 1.3×
Michigan State University MI
16
 1.1×
University of Pittsburgh PA
16
 2.2×
Boston University MA
16
 2.3×

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
Claremont Graduate University CA
5.8%
 14
Carleton College MN
4.1%
 9
Swarthmore College PA
4.0%
 25
University of Chicago IL
3.9%
 174
Johns Hopkins University MD
3.3%
 69
Tufts University MA
3.2%
 33
Princeton University NJ
3.1%
 150
Georgetown University DC
3.0%
 68
University of Rochester NY
3.0%
 27
Columbia University NY
2.7%
 244
Yale University CT
2.5%
 196
American University DC
2.4%
 20
Harvard University MA
2.3%
 458
Williams College MA
2.2%
 15
Antioch College OH
2.2%
 8
Oberlin College OH
2.1%
 23
Mount Holyoke College MA
2.1%
 6
Amherst College MA
2.1%
 17
Washington University in St Louis MO
2.1%
 19
University of California-Berkeley CA
2.0%
 141
Brandeis University MA
2.0%
 14
Miami University-Oxford OH
1.9%
 12
Emory University GA
1.8%
 10
CUNY City College NY
1.8%
 19
Loyola University Chicago IL
1.8%
 5
Cornell University NY
1.8%
 81
Haverford College PA
1.7%
 6
Wellesley College MA
1.7%
 12
Middlebury College VT
1.7%
 6
Bryn Mawr College PA
1.7%
 5
Pomona College CA
1.7%
 7
University of California-San Diego CA
1.6%
 12
University of Wisconsin-Madison WI
1.6%
 71
Barnard College NY
1.5%
 10
Binghamton University NY
1.5%
 5
Stanford University CA
1.5%
 104
Massachusetts Institute of Technology MA
1.4%
 54
Wesleyan University CT
1.4%
 9
Duke University NC
1.3%
 31
University of Massachusetts-Amherst MA
1.3%
 19