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
384
 39.3×
Columbia University NY
224
 24.6×
Yale University CT
169
 45.4×
University of Chicago IL
168
 22.8×
Princeton University NJ
149
 57.9×
University of California-Berkeley CA
139
 11.2×
Stanford University CA
102
 26.8×
University of Michigan MI
85
 5.0×
Cornell University NY
81
 10.6×
University of Wisconsin-Madison WI
70
 4.3×
Johns Hopkins University MD
62
 8.4×
Georgetown University DC
58
 17.4×
Massachusetts Institute of Technology MA
54
 20.9×
University of California-Los Angeles CA
45
 4.3×
University of Minnesota MN
37
 1.3×
Northwestern University IL
36
 4.2×
New York University NY
35
 4.6×
Duke University NC
31
 9.6×
University of Pennsylvania PA
27
 2.4×
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill NC
27
 3.0×
University of Rochester NY
27
 7.4×
University of Virginia VA
26
 4.6×
Swarthmore College PA
25
 40.6×
Brown University RI
24
 11.8×
The University of Texas at Austin TX
23
 1.6×
Oberlin College OH
23
 12.9×
Ohio State University OH
21
 2.8×
University of Washington WA
20
 1.1×
University of Massachusetts-Amherst MA
19
 1.4×
CUNY City College NY
19
 1.3×
Washington University in St Louis MO
19
 3.6×
Tufts University MA
19
 6.4×
Syracuse University NY
18
 1.8×
Amherst College MA
17
 22.3×
George Washington University DC
17
 2.4×
Boston University MA
16
 4.4×
American University DC
16
 5.9×
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign IL
16
 1.3×
University of Pittsburgh PA
16
 2.4×
Michigan State University MI
16
 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
Carleton College MN
4.2%
 9
University of Chicago IL
3.0%
 168
Williams College MA
2.4%
 15
Columbia University NY
2.4%
 224
Johns Hopkins University MD
2.4%
 62
Yale University CT
2.2%
 169
Georgetown University DC
2.2%
 58
University of Rochester NY
2.2%
 27
Harvard University MA
2.0%
 384
United States Naval Academy MD
1.9%
 8
Princeton University NJ
1.9%
 149
Swarthmore College PA
1.9%
 25
Claremont Graduate University CA
1.8%
 14
Wesleyan University CT
1.7%
 9
Bryn Mawr College PA
1.6%
 5
The New School NY
1.4%
 13
Vassar College NY
1.4%
 6
Tufts University MA
1.3%
 19
Amherst College MA
1.3%
 17
Emory University GA
1.3%
 10
American University DC
1.3%
 16
Washington University in St Louis MO
1.2%
 19
Massachusetts Institute of Technology MA
1.2%
 54
Cornell University NY
1.2%
 81
Brandeis University MA
1.2%
 14
Barnard College NY
1.1%
 10
University of California-Berkeley CA
1.1%
 139
Miami University-Oxford OH
1.1%
 12
Loyola University Chicago IL
1.1%
 5
Oberlin College OH
1.0%
 23
Stanford University CA
1.0%
 102
Boston University MA
1.0%
 16
University of California-San Diego CA
1.0%
 12
Pomona College CA
0.9%
 7
Middlebury College VT
0.9%
 6
Mount Holyoke College MA
0.9%
 6
New York University NY
0.9%
 35
Sarah Lawrence College NY
0.9%
 5
University of Wisconsin-Madison WI
0.8%
 70
CUNY City College NY
0.8%
 19