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
226
 38.6×
Stanford University CA
157
 44.1×
Massachusetts Institute of Technology MA
117
 41.5×
Yale University CT
77
 20.1×
Columbia University NY
74
 11.3×
Princeton University NJ
62
 30.8×
Cornell University NY
57
 13.0×
University of California-Berkeley CA
56
 6.1×
University of California-Los Angeles CA
55
 5.7×
New York University NY
50
 4.7×
University of Chicago IL
50
 13.7×
University of Michigan MI
47
 4.5×
University of Southern California CA
46
 6.4×
Northwestern University IL
34
 7.3×
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign IL
32
 3.2×
University of Pennsylvania PA
30
 5.3×
Duke University NC
28
 8.3×
Brown University RI
27
 14.5×
Boston University MA
24
 3.3×
The University of Texas at Austin TX
23
 2.0×
George Washington University DC
19
 3.3×
Dartmouth College NH
18
 12.5×
University of Washington WA
18
 1.9×
Carnegie Mellon University PA
18
 10.1×
University of Minnesota MN
17
 0.8×
Tufts University MA
17
 8.5×
University of Wisconsin-Madison WI
16
 1.2×
Vanderbilt University TN
16
 7.5×
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill NC
16
 2.2×
University of Virginia VA
15
 3.8×
California Institute of Technology CA
15
 28.7×
Southern Methodist University TX
15
 7.2×
Johns Hopkins University MD
14
 2.9×
University of Florida FL
14
 1.3×
Georgetown University DC
14
 4.6×
Tulane University LA
14
 4.4×
University of Pittsburgh PA
13
 1.5×
Syracuse University NY
13
 2.1×
Georgia Institute of Technology GA
13
 2.3×
American University DC
13
 6.4×

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
Babson College MA
7.3%
 9
Golden Gate University CA
4.6%
 5
Fashion Institute of Technology NY
3.7%
 7
Pace University NY
3.5%
 6
Massachusetts Institute of Technology MA
3.4%
 117
Pomona College CA
3.2%
 8
Stanford University CA
3.2%
 157
Calvin University MI
3.0%
 5
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute NY
2.9%
 11
Tufts University MA
2.9%
 17
Carnegie Mellon University PA
2.8%
 18
American University DC
2.7%
 13
Drexel University PA
2.4%
 5
Fairleigh Dickinson University-Metropolitan Campus NJ
2.4%
 5
Harvard University MA
2.4%
 226
Yeshiva University NY
2.2%
 6
Southern Methodist University TX
2.1%
 15
University of San Francisco CA
2.1%
 9
Vanderbilt University TN
2.1%
 16
Lehigh University PA
2.1%
 8
Emory University GA
2.0%
 6
New York Film Academy CA
2.0%
 5
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign IL
1.9%
 32
Union College NY
1.9%
 6
California State University-Northridge CA
1.8%
 7
California Institute of Technology CA
1.8%
 15
Swarthmore College PA
1.8%
 10
Cornell University NY
1.8%
 57
Tulane University LA
1.8%
 14
University of Chicago IL
1.8%
 50
Florida International University FL
1.8%
 6
East Carolina University NC
1.7%
 5
Vassar College NY
1.6%
 6
University of Pennsylvania PA
1.6%
 30
Northwestern University IL
1.6%
 34
University of Southern California CA
1.6%
 46
Dartmouth College NH
1.6%
 18
Bowdoin College ME
1.6%
 6
Pepperdine University CA
1.6%
 8
Illinois Institute of Technology IL
1.5%
 5