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
 53.4×
Columbia University NY
224
 31.1×
Yale University CT
169
 48.5×
University of Chicago IL
168
 40.7×
Princeton University NJ
149
 69.1×
University of California-Berkeley CA
139
 13.5×
Stanford University CA
102
 22.2×
University of Michigan MI
85
 6.7×
Cornell University NY
81
 16.8×
University of Wisconsin-Madison WI
70
 5.2×
Johns Hopkins University MD
62
 12.5×
Georgetown University DC
58
 15.0×
Massachusetts Institute of Technology MA
54
 18.6×
University of California-Los Angeles CA
45
 4.0×
University of Minnesota MN
37
 1.8×
Northwestern University IL
36
 6.4×
New York University NY
35
 3.2×
Duke University NC
31
 9.3×
University of Pennsylvania PA
27
 3.4×
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill NC
27
 3.5×
University of Rochester NY
27
 9.9×
University of Virginia VA
26
 4.3×
Swarthmore College PA
25
 56.2×
Brown University RI
24
 10.8×
The University of Texas at Austin TX
23
 1.5×
Oberlin College OH
23
 23.0×
Ohio State University OH
21
 1.4×
University of Washington WA
20
 1.6×
University of Massachusetts-Amherst MA
19
 2.3×
CUNY City College NY
19
 3.5×
Washington University in St Louis MO
19
 4.9×
Tufts University MA
19
 7.5×
Syracuse University NY
18
 2.5×
Amherst College MA
17
 26.8×
George Washington University DC
17
 2.6×
Boston University MA
16
 2.0×
American University DC
16
 4.7×
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign IL
16
 1.3×
University of Pittsburgh PA
16
 2.0×
Michigan State University MI
16
 1.1×

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
7.2%
 14
University of Rochester NY
4.5%
 27
Swarthmore College PA
4.3%
 25
University of Chicago IL
4.2%
 168
Carleton College MN
3.9%
 9
Georgetown University DC
3.7%
 58
Johns Hopkins University MD
3.5%
 62
Princeton University NJ
3.2%
 149
Columbia University NY
3.0%
 224
Yale University CT
2.9%
 169
Harvard University MA
2.8%
 384
The New School NY
2.7%
 13
Antioch College OH
2.7%
 8
Oberlin College OH
2.6%
 23
Tufts University MA
2.6%
 19
Washington University in St Louis MO
2.4%
 19
American University DC
2.3%
 16
Mount Holyoke College MA
2.2%
 6
University of California-Berkeley CA
2.2%
 139
Emory University GA
2.2%
 10
Williams College MA
2.1%
 15
Haverford College PA
2.1%
 6
Amherst College MA
2.1%
 17
Brandeis University MA
2.1%
 14
Miami University-Oxford OH
2.0%
 12
Cornell University NY
2.0%
 81
Wellesley College MA
1.9%
 12
CUNY City College NY
1.9%
 19
University of California-San Diego CA
1.9%
 12
University of Wisconsin-Madison WI
1.8%
 70
Middlebury College VT
1.8%
 6
Pomona College CA
1.8%
 7
Binghamton University NY
1.8%
 5
Stanford University CA
1.7%
 102
Loyola University Chicago IL
1.7%
 5
University of Massachusetts-Amherst MA
1.7%
 19
DePauw University IN
1.6%
 5
Duke University NC
1.6%
 31
Barnard College NY
1.5%
 10
University of California-Santa Barbara CA
1.5%
 13