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
Harvard University MA
406
 57.5×
Columbia University NY
233
 33.0×
Yale University CT
181
 46.4×
University of Chicago IL
180
 46.1×
Princeton University NJ
156
 65.6×
University of California-Berkeley CA
146
 12.4×
Stanford University CA
115
 21.5×
University of Michigan MI
92
 6.7×
Cornell University NY
88
 18.8×
University of Wisconsin-Madison WI
73
 4.8×
Georgetown University DC
66
 13.8×
Johns Hopkins University MD
64
 13.4×
Massachusetts Institute of Technology MA
63
 17.7×
University of California-Los Angeles CA
50
 3.9×
University of Minnesota MN
41
 1.9×
New York University NY
40
 3.1×
Northwestern University IL
38
 6.3×
Duke University NC
36
 9.1×
University of Pennsylvania PA
32
 3.8×
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill NC
30
 3.5×
Brown University RI
28
 10.3×
University of Rochester NY
28
 8.7×
University of Virginia VA
28
 4.1×
The University of Texas at Austin TX
26
 1.5×
Swarthmore College PA
25
 50.4×
Syracuse University NY
24
 3.2×
Oberlin College OH
23
 22.5×
Ohio State University OH
22
 1.1×
Tufts University MA
21
 7.3×
University of Massachusetts-Amherst MA
21
 2.3×
University of Washington WA
21
 1.5×
George Washington University DC
20
 2.6×
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign IL
20
 1.5×
Washington University in St Louis MO
19
 4.5×
University of Pittsburgh PA
19
 1.8×
CUNY City College NY
19
 4.0×
Boston University MA
18
 1.7×
Brandeis University MA
18
 12.3×
Amherst College MA
18
 30.6×
Williams College MA
17
 23.1×

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
Claremont Graduate University CA
8.1%
 16
University of Chicago IL
3.7%
 180
Swarthmore College PA
3.7%
 25
University of Rochester NY
3.7%
 28
Georgetown University DC
3.6%
 66
The New School NY
3.3%
 16
Carleton College MN
2.9%
 9
Johns Hopkins University MD
2.8%
 64
Princeton University NJ
2.7%
 156
Columbia University NY
2.7%
 233
Antioch College OH
2.6%
 8
Harvard University MA
2.5%
 406
Yale University CT
2.5%
 181
Tufts University MA
2.4%
 21
Brandeis University MA
2.4%
 18
American University DC
2.2%
 17
Oberlin College OH
2.1%
 23
Haverford College PA
2.1%
 6
University of California-Berkeley CA
2.0%
 146
Washington University in St Louis MO
2.0%
 19
University of California-Santa Barbara CA
1.9%
 16
Emory University GA
1.9%
 11
Mount Holyoke College MA
1.9%
 7
DePauw University IN
1.9%
 6
Amherst College MA
1.9%
 18
University of California-San Diego CA
1.9%
 15
CUNY City College NY
1.8%
 19
Williams College MA
1.8%
 17
University of Massachusetts-Amherst MA
1.8%
 21
Cornell University NY
1.8%
 88
Pomona College CA
1.7%
 8
Stanford University CA
1.7%
 115
Wellesley College MA
1.7%
 12
Binghamton University NY
1.7%
 5
University of Wisconsin-Madison WI
1.7%
 73
Duke University NC
1.7%
 36
Miami University-Oxford OH
1.6%
 12
Middlebury College VT
1.5%
 7
Wayne State University MI
1.4%
 9
CUNY Queens College NY
1.4%
 5